• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    Kind of but let’s say:

    Someone offered you to fight a bear for $5k.

    He assures you the bear is safe.

    People around you tell you it’s not, and don’t be an idiot.

    Is it your fault if you chose to take the con man’s offer and fight the bear or the con man’s fault?

    I started thinking about this after the titanic submarine disaster. Like, how is that not like a Darwin Award?

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      The difference is that racists are not bears. They’re people behaving poorly. I think this is better compared to a thief getting robbed by his partner in crime. Is he a fool? Yes. Is he a bad person? Yes. Can I blame his partner in crime for this? Also yes. In both cases it’s an idiot and a bad person walking into a position that another person behaved poorly towards them.