I think your quoted use of the word "victim" is implying a context that may not be clear to people when they read your message. Of course there are victims - by definition. Look up the word "victim" in the dictionary.

In the context of taking responsibility for what has occurred instead of simply justifying it or rationalizing it, I concur. A popular aphorism that I believe applies is 'Life is not what happens to you, it's how you deal with it'.

Personally I have witnessed 'victims' as a result of cause and effect whereby they did not have the mental and/or responsive capabilities to extrapolate the cause and therefore avoid it - even with prior advice. Do such people only have themselves to blame or do we pity their inadequacies?