There are people who are victims in life, and I don't think they should be encouraged.
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
I'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.
It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.
If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.
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