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Why not hold only the particular neurons responsible for a crime accountable?

• houseabsolute 16y ago
  If that were possible, I'm sure that's exactly what we would do.
  • nooneelse 16y ago
    If you take a cog out of a machine because it broke (couldn't take the pressure exerted on it or some such) and replace it with a nearly identical one... why think that one will last any better? Corporations intentionally structure themselves with the goal that the people in most roles can be replaceable with minimum impact on the company performance. It is odd to only look at the lower level units that are used to build a system and ignore the possibility of structural, system-level issues or pathologies.
    • houseabsolute 16y ago
      When you open the machine up, you're going to check which parts are causing it to break, not just which parts are broken. You'll fix those parts of the machine as well, to carry on the analogy. Not that any of this is going to happen in real life. But as long as we're speculating . . .