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I will not comment on the first part of your post, and I genuinely recommend editing that out. As I said in my original post, debating too hard on what counts as sheep or not, as well as why I think this and that on the subject, requires going majorly off-topic, and even worse, into stuff like politics, all of which is against forum rules.-SNIP-
As for the other part.
I'm not sure if the poster I was replying too was doing victim blaming or not... hard to be sure. His English is a bit hard to parse at times tbh. That said, while Laura is definitely a victim in the whole mess, it's not entirely true either. In the sense that her own idiocy and/or pride is what causes her to sink.
What I mean by that is that she accepted to play Luca's game, even though anyone with two brain cells would have realized that he wouldn't have proposed the game in the first place if there was any real chance for her to win. She didn't even stop to consider that her own sexual experience was extremely lacking, while Luca was a massive playboy since high-school. She also didn't really stop to think all that deeply about his motives for his actions. In most paths, she pretty much never realizes that Luca's actions towards her are all motivated by his hatred of Harry, which automatically makes it clear that his interest in her will drop significantly once she's no longer useful in tormenting Harry.
Quite frankly, there were a LOT of things that she could have done differently if she stopped to use at least a couple of braincells.
It's... how should I put it. If you're hiking in the woods and you get attacked by wolves, you're unlucky and you're a victim. If you go to the zoo, cover yourself in blood and jump into the wolves' cage, you're a moron and you pretty much deserve the obvious end result.
Do you understand what I'm trying to say here? As far as I'm concerned, Laura wasn't the hiker in the woods, she was the moron that jumped in the wolves' cage, albeit because someone told her to do it and she couldn't think of a better idea on her own.
Hell, even Luca mocks her about it. I don't remember which route it was, but he flat out tells her that she was basically an idiot and that Harry would have preferred to outright go to prison rather than have this situation happen. One has to question if she actually did what she did for Harry's sake, or because she couldn't stand the idea of not being able to solve a situation on her own.