Reply #19: I'm glad for your good judgment and happy ending. But when homebuyers act like humans [View All]

[sojourner]

-- and that means being less than rational when making a purchase of something like a home or a car -- and that reality is deliberately and criminally exploited such that the homeowner is left with NOTHING (current outcome for too many) then that is CRIMINAL. And it's happened to so many people that it no longer looks to me like bad homebuyers but more like dishonest, manipulative con-men playing a game in which THEY can't lose. And when we try to walk that damn moral tightrope we cause the common man to lose.

My friend Sherry walked from the restaurant where she works to her car late one night and was raped. Should the judge lambast Sherry for walking alone at night? She's female and she KNOWS she's a potential victim, doesn't she? So it's her fault she was raped - or at partly so, according to the argument being utilized.

And as a consequence, we let the rapist carry just a little less guilt and blame because after all, he wouldn't have had a victim if Sherry hadn't chosen to walk out to her car that night.

And worse, we confront Sherry with "told-you-so" looks and comments when the crime against her has taken everything she believed in away...her belief that she is "safe", her belief that it "won't happen to me", her ability to be vulnerable or even sexual with a man.

Yeah...those home buyers. Sick fucks....:sarcasm: