The qualifier was kind of tongue in cheek to avoid a lecture but thank you for taking the time to enlighten me as to my wayward ways. Glad I could provide a soap box for you to pontificate from. And, of course, thanks for censoring the rest of my post.
On Monday, September 10, 2012 10:01:28 AM UTC+2, trev wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:39 AM, rachel <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > And yes, we know he shouldn't have left it there. This is Obs, after > all. > > This is an interesting phenomena - the blame myself game - especially > with the OBS qualifier. > > I have payed it too. How far do we go before we start laying the blame > where the blame should be laid? I am not sure where that is but it > starts from the top down I think with Mr Showerhead himself and the > failed government and the poor economic situation down to the lack of > policing and corruption and the highest levels in the Police and > governments. > > I think ourselves are low down on the list. > > After all I think we have stopped laying the blame for rape on the > rape victim so why do we blame ourselves first. I think we agree that > rape is never the victims fault so why are you at fault and to blame > for leaving your table unattended for 5 minutes. I blame some > degenerate criminal not you. You were not asking for your table to be > stolen despite what you and others may think. > > I think we need to change our mind sets a bit. We are not to blame for > crime - unless we let people get away with it by not reporting it and > following up. Yes we know that there is a likely hood of stuff going > missing in a minute and we should probably be more careful - but to > blame ourselves for the crime when it goes missing? > > Just some thoughts. > > Trev > -- OPS [Obsid Public Safety] - 24/7 control room ---------------------------------------------- 021-447-1066 072-063-1653 For all emergencies please dial 10111 ---------------------------------------------- ONW: 082 081 0142, ONW email: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Observatory Neighbourhood watch group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/obsnw?hl=en
