While a thief always holds full legal responsibility for their crime, potential victims often hold some non-legal blame. Potential victims leave themselves vulnerable to attack and attractive to potential attackers.
A victim’s stupidity in no way absolves the perpetrator. Still, if you want to avoid getting robbed, you have to protect yourself by not leaving yourself open to attack.
In addition to the common sense precautions, such as locking doors and staying in well-lit areas, you also want to avoid flashiness. Wearing needlessly fancy jewelry and otherwise obtaining and/or flaunting needlessly expensive possessions will nearly invite thieves, robbers, and burglars. Not only will these victimizers want to take what they see, your flaunting will lead them to think you just generally have excessive amounts of wealth to steal.
Modern humans have the dishonorable tendency to try and show off and make others jealous. Doing that will catch the eye of crooks.
What do you think?
