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Analogies are fun. If you have a tower of sand that collapses, do you find the grain that started moving first and put the entire blame of collapse on it? You
by nas 8y ago
Analogies are fun. If you have a tower of sand that collapses, do you find the grain that started moving first and put the entire blame of collapse on it? Your example is of relatively stable system (presumably healthy human life) that takes a big external disturbance to cause failure. The sand tower is an unstable system that takes a tiny disturbance to trigger failure. I think the California forest situation is somewhere between these two extremes.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> If you have a tower of sand that collapses, do you find the grain that started moving first and put the entire blame of collapse on it? No, put finding where that first movement happened is perhaps key to finding the hand that flicked that first grain, and does bear the whole blame. > Your example is of relatively stable system (presumably healthy human life) We don't consider the healthiness relevant for most legal purposes; are you familiar with the eggshell rule? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull
- pixl97 8y agoThe hand that flicked the first grain was the idiot that built a house in the wildland fire zone. That's the problem, is people aren't looking at the actual problem. Fires are natural for this area, your house is not.