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Re:Fired employee wipes out whole season of TV show by JonnieCache on Friday April 01, 2011 @08:57AM (#2395984)
This is called Fundamental Attribution Error. As the name suggests it is a foundational part of human social psychology and it has been studied for years.

Personally I'm convinced it is one of the cognitive flaws that are needed to stop us from going teeth-gnashingly insane after ten minutes exposure to reality.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Fundamental_a...

See also: "She should have known what would happen to her, going out at night dressed like that."

No.

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Re:Fired employee wipes out whole season of TV show by jrockway on Friday April 01, 2011 @12:51PM (#2396961)
Rape is a bit different from someone who doesn't work for you having the necessary access to delete all your files.
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Re:Fired employee wipes out whole season of TV show by JonnieCache on Friday April 01, 2011 @02:51PM (#2397498)
Obviously. But the cognitive mistake is the same. This is not me getting on my soapbox, it is a point of view held by psychologists, it's there in the literature.
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Re:Fired employee wipes out whole season of TV show by jrockway on Friday April 01, 2011 @04:09PM (#2397803)
Fine, I'll rephrase. If the hosting company took the simplest possible precautions, then this would not have happened. You can't trust people that don't work for you.
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