Victimhood and Victim Perspectives

Victimhood and Victim Perspective

Each individual in the present society has the right for an equal opportunity and towards the different necessities in life such as the basic needs of food , shelter , clothing , and others . Aside from these each individual also must have their own right for conceptual social values such as dignity , peace , welfare and many others . These are basically the provision of the humanitarian rule of equality in the quest of the people of attaining their utopian stature of the ideal condition for the people . However , many changes in events

in the social perspective have occurred in the history of the people that resulted unequal views among the people and this is caused mainly by some attributing factors such as money , social position and power , influence and others . These events in the social history have established the division among the people wherein the other half fall victim because of their social conditions

The article report of Charles and Clara Biggs regarding the event of the outbreak of cholera presents an intriguing perspective towards the social perspective of equality among the people (2003 . During the spread of the said sickness , most people have been able to secure themselves from the sickness however , some did not . Inspite of the many health and education campaign of the government for the prevention of the said sickness , some people still have fallen victim to cholera . What makes this people different from the social majority ? Another report has claim the same perspective regarding the idea of disaster and risk management , Sheila Jasanoff has reported that most victims of pollution particularly the toxic ones are from the Third World countries wherein their government is powerless to prevent the illegal campaign of highly developed nations of dumping their toxic wastes in their countries (1994 . Indeed , the situation of environmental disasters and disease outbreaks present the public question about the equality of the people in the terms of safety and welfare . It appears that despite of the continuous campaigns and efforts of their respective government , some people still fall victims to such tragedies and sadly these victims are mostly from underdeveloped societies

Indeed , the ideal virtue and perspective of equality towards public safety and welfare is being highly questioned in the present . The obvious institutional inequality undermines the virtue of promoting equal effort among the people . Access to public campaigns for education and health is being hinder by the personal capabilities of some people in terms of financial capacity and social influence causing the inability to protect themselves . To address the threats of cholera public campaign are launched however , these campaigns only include the people who are capable of access such as purchasing power of the medicines being offered . Indeed , the threats of the said disease affected still the poor section of the society . On the other hand victims of environmental disasters are mostly people from underdeveloped societies because of the fact that they are financial incapable of protecting themselves . Indeed , the perspective of Victimhood is significantly...