Blame The Victims

We humans love to pretend it’s all the victim’s fault

Allan Milne Lees

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Image credit: BBC News

One of the glories of the human intellect is its inability to cope with more than one simple concept at a time. As our brains evolved to cope with the relatively basic challenges of living on the African savannah and within the primordial forests of Eurasia, we are adapted to see the world in easy binary terms: good/bad, up/down, black/white…

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Allan Milne Lees

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