Common Sense Takes a Back Seat
Crime is unavoidable, that's a fact. It's going to happen, sometimes more often than not, but no matter what we do to prevent it, we can only reduce the frequency, not eliminate it all together. One way of reducing the frequency is to remove ourselves from situations where the likelihood of crime is high. Avoid dark alleys, don't talk to strangers, and never hitchhike are common pieces of advice our mothers told us.
Common sense will keep us out of trouble in a lot of cases. Ann Coulter, in her recent article, discusses some of the behavior involved in the Duke lacrosse rape case, Natalee Holloway vanishing in Aruba, and Imette St. Guillen's murder. I agree with her when she writes, "Everyone makes mistakes, especially young people, but the outpouring of support for the victims and their families is obscuring what ought to be a flashing neon warning for potential future victims."
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Not very long ago,
all the precursor behavior in these cases would have been
recognized as vulgar -- whether or not anyone ended up dead, raped
or falsely accused of rape. But in a nation of people in constant
terror of being perceived as "judgmental," I'm not sure
most people do recognize that anymore. It shouldn't be
necessary to point out that girls shouldn't be bar-hopping alone
or taking their clothes off in front of strangers, and that young
men shouldn't be hiring strippers. But we live in a world of Bill
Clinton, Paris Hilton, Howard Stern, Julia Roberts in "Pretty
Woman," Democratic fund-raisers at the |
Nobody deserves the crime committed on them, but we’re obligated as a society to speak up and warn others of actions which may put the odds in the criminal's favor.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14178&o=ANN001