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is important to a complete society: A creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect. Honore de Balzac

is, in different times and places in history, taken to be a moral guide, an expert, a survivor, a truthteller, and an object of pity.

1. 'conceptions of the victim as moral guide, expert, survivor, and truthteller have existed alongside that tof the victim as a passive object of pity' (Polletta 2006 117).

is never considered by its assailant, be that the passions, or justice, or politics or the great social forces.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike. Honore de Balzac

is such that victims are held in ludicrously unjustified esteem.

Just as we've turned into a thin-skinned culture, we've turned into one in which victims are held in ludicrously unjustified esteem. So some people liberals become victims by any means necessary. Not long ago, 18-year-olds were being sent off to kill the Vietcong in the jungles. Now they don't even have the chutzpah to kill themselves after a good online roasting. Liberals love to couch things in vague terms. The reason' It's much easier to be repressive and authoritarian when you don't have to say exactly what you mean.

is suggestive of innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

is likely to be a repeat victim --- where the wolf gets one lamb, it looks for another

Where the wolf gets one lamb, it looks for another

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