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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by cm2187 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @06:43AM (#16034862)
Like a mobster who orders someone killed. A hitman does the killing but the mobster is equally responsible.

But what about the Muhammad cartoonists in Europe? Drawing a caricature of Muhammad is not a crime in Europe, however it will result in angry reactions in the Muslim world, and people (often Christians) getting killed there. The cartoonists know that but proceed nevertheless. Are they in some way responsible for those killings? I’d argue not but many disagreed then. But drawing the line of where responsibility stops being shared is non trivial.

Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by scaryclam on Saturday December 30, 2017 @07:52PM (#16038652)
I'd have thought that drawing a cartoon depicting Muhammad and signing it "drawn by Christians in <insert target Muslim country>" would be a better analogy. Then yes, I'd say that the real authors were responsible for the resulting violence (along with the people inflicting the violence of course).