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the only role everyone claims and nobody wants, especially the ones causing the damage.
means a person harmed, injured, or killed by an act, circumstance, or someone else's decision, though the word now gets stretched over anything from tragedy to a bad Yelp review.
from from latin victima, a creature killed for sacrifice — meaning the first victims were literal offerings to gods, before the word wandered into courtrooms and group chats.
legal shiftcriminology only centered victims' rights in the 1970s
sacrifice rootsvictima once meant the animal, not the person
blame paradoxreal victims often get less sympathy than performed ones