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If you provide a tool to a criminal that they use in commission of a crime, you are assisting them and should generally be prosecuted unless a good reason exist
by moneytalks 9y ago
If you provide a tool to a criminal that they use in commission of a crime, you are assisting them and should generally be prosecuted unless a good reason exists to counter.
Is providing a public service a "good enough" reason?
If you provide free classes on bomb-making, should you bear any responsibility for how your students use the knowledge? Just because you're offering a public good/service doesn't absolve you of responsibility.
- aeorgnoieang 9y agoWhat about roads? And cell phones? And paper? Should the public schools teachers be held accountable for everything they taught any criminals that they used in the commission of any of their crimes?
- moneytalks 9y agoYou're right, these aren't easy questions. Your examples are good ones. If my land had a trail through it that I knew was being used for human trafficking but also for natural resources preservation, I'd still have a problem with that "road". And, yes, it doesn't really matter what setting the bomb-making class is held in the teacher arguably should bear some accountability.
- angry-hacker 9y agoAnd now the tricky one for you, Americans: what about guns?