" Maybe not, " said the Prime Minister, standing up and striding about the room, " but I would have put all my efforts into catching the blackmailer before he committed any such atrocity! "
The blackmailer refuses to take responsibility for their own feelings, but the blackmailee is the exact opposite: they take responsibility for feelings that aren't their own.
As his money was running out some blackmailers slit the throats of five of his dogs and basically ran him out of town, but not before he paid them over $150,000.