Bears do actually have a choice. They generally attack if they feel threatened. If you go into their den, they will feel threatened.

Same as pickpockets, sure they have a choice, but if you enter an area ripe for their activity where they know they can get away with it more often than not, they will strike.

That is a false equivalency. Regardless of how a woman dresses though, if they knowingly go to a known rapists home, are they not baiting them?

The key element of my argument that everyone is willfully ignoring is the prior knowledge of the likely outcome if they go to a certain place.

If you go to an area hot with pickpockets but had no advance knowledge of this, they are not passively baiting them. If you somehow have no clue that bears will attack when threatened, and then enter a bear den out of curiosity then no you are not passively baiting them. If a woman goes home with a man having no idea they are a rapist, again they are not passively baiting them.

Prior knowledge of known behavior in an area, and the choice to disregard it and risk going there anyways, is what I’m calling passive baiting.