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Hmm, harsh punishments for disobeying orders aren't unexpected, especially in such a situation. Not Hyperbole would work if they didn't think he'd literally do that, or What An Idiot if they should have known better. It's definitely not victim blaming because this is a punishment for something they should not have done and were told not to do and most likely weren't tricked or coerced into doing. No Sympathy fits better.
Is this situation completely Never My Fault, Victim Blaming, or something else?
Bob is in charge of enforcing discipline in an Army of Thieves and Whores. One day the order comes that there is to be no pillaging in the city they're attacking. Bob relays the order as "Any of you bastards is found pillaging, I'll break both his arms and drop him off at the medic's tent. And they already have enough to deal with without adding self-inflicted injuries, so any treatment they give you will be half-hearted, rushed, and expensive!" He goes on to make good on this threat several times (and the medics are indeed grumpy at dealing with Bob's victims and take it out on them) before the pillaging drops off.
Obviously these injuries aren't self-inflicted, but the pillagers are treated (by Bob and the medics) as though they deliberately injured themselves just to waste the medics (and Bob's) time. And Bob doesn't ever consider himself as being at fault for several soldiers being useless in combat, because after all, he warned them.
Edited by Chabal2