Re:Giant Panda no longer an endangered species
by DominikR on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:47PM
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I honestly can't come up with a single example where someone should be held accountable for something someone else did except for cases that involve enabling others who suffer for some kind of psychological illness or are otherwise incapable of acting responsibly as one would expect from an adult.
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Re:Giant Panda no longer an endangered species
by chillacy on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:14AM
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Sure, you just came up with a couple counterexamples on your own.
Another one:
If you're a mob boss and you tell your henchmen to murder someone, you're also on the line. That's a pretty direct one. But you could also argue that the witness who accepted a bribe to lie for the mafia is guilty of something, as may be the guy who stocked the weapons that day, or their getaway driver.
And at least legally, in the US, if your buddy is robbing the bank and you're his getaway driver, and he kills a police officer before dying himself, you're now on the line for murdering that police officer.
I think there's really a sliding scale of complicitness which makes it pretty complex.