woodwardiocom

I fall down on your breakdown of acceptable/not acceptable. I'm sorry your bike got stolen, god, that's shitty, and bike locks don't exactly prevent it, but yes, if you ask me, I will tell you to lock your bike. You have the cellphone you have, you don't buy a special cheaper one to use in bad parts of town when you are there at scary times, and you got mugged because you happened across a mugger, not because your cell was brandy new and pricey. Similarly, if you got raped, that happened because of the confluence of you and rapist, not because you failed to divine what magical outfit it was you could have worn that would have miraculously made you safe.