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Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by nbouscal on Friday January 03, 2014 @06:00PM (#7008867)
Responsibility is not a binary property where any given individual is either responsible or not. There are varying degrees of responsibility. Obviously each step in your absurd slippery slope argument corresponds to a drastic decrease in the degree of responsibility. You aren't following the logic, you're evading logic entirely.
Re:Losing Aaron: Bob Swartz on MIT's role in his son's death by mpyne on Saturday January 04, 2014 @11:14AM (#7011524)
And yet people here are holding MIT and the prosecution team more responsible than Aaron himself for Aaron's own actions. I'll definitely agree with you that responsibility is not binary but I won't agree that the slippery slope argument isn't exactly what many of the HN'ers are on right now.