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0 pointsJumpCrisscross2mo ago0 comments

> Do we hold gun manufacturers responsible for the deaths from their guns?

In a lot of the world, yes, and in America we would as well if it weren’t for the modern take on the Second Amendment. AI has no similar legal purchase.

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card_zero2mo ago

But there are lots of similar quandaries:

Bitey dogs.

Dangerous drugs and their users and purveyors. Heroin, weed, booze, coffee.

Things done while on drugs. Things done while insane.

Unhealthy food and its purveyors and consumers.

Social media and its "addicts". TV, any old media, and social panic.

The question "whose fault?" isn't simple.

JumpCrisscrossOP2mo ago

> * The question "whose fault?" isn't simple*

Most of your examples have exquisitely-simple causation.

card_zero2mo ago

OK, I'll say "no they don't". Over to you.

JumpCrisscrossOP2mo ago

Literally first one. “Bitey dogs.” In what jurisdiction is a dog biting a person legally ambiguous in respect of liability?

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card_zero2mo ago

But there are lots of similar quandaries:

Bitey dogs.

Dangerous drugs and their users and purveyors. Heroin, weed, booze, coffee.

Things done while on drugs. Things done while insane.

Unhealthy food and its purveyors and consumers.

Social media and its "addicts". TV, any old media, and social panic.

The question "whose fault?" isn't simple.

JumpCrisscrossOP2mo ago

> * The question "whose fault?" isn't simple*

Most of your examples have exquisitely-simple causation.

card_zero2mo ago

OK, I'll say "no they don't". Over to you.

JumpCrisscrossOP2mo ago

Literally first one. “Bitey dogs.” In what jurisdiction is a dog biting a person legally ambiguous in respect of liability?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse