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I am fond of the aphorism that "blame is not a zero-sum game." Two people can be equally and severally responsible for something.
by braythwayt 9y ago
I am fond of the aphorism that "blame is not a zero-sum game."
Two people can be equally and severally responsible for something.
- cm2187 9y agoLike a mobster who orders someone killed. A hitman does the killing but the mobster is equally responsible. But what about the Muhammad cartoonists in Europe? Drawing a caricature of Muhammad is not a crime in Europe, however it will result in angry reactions in the Muslim world, and people (often Christians) getting killed there. The cartoonists know that but proceed nevertheless. Are they in some way responsible for those killings? I’d argue not but many disagreed then. But drawing the line of where responsibility stops being shared is non trivial.
- scaryclam 9y agoI'd have thought that drawing a cartoon depicting Muhammad and signing it "drawn by Christians in <insert target Muslim country>" would be a better analogy. Then yes, I'd say that the real authors were responsible for the resulting violence (along with the people inflicting the violence of course).