>chain of moral responsibility This sounds like an issue with the limitations of the philosophical framework of cause and effect, which breaks down in complex

>chain of moral responsibility This sounds like an issue with the limitations of the philosophical framework of cause and effect, which breaks down in complex systems. Also your comment on applying a process oriented solution, which is also the key difference between responsibility and blame that the op referred to. Responsibility is process, or action, oriented. Blame tries to invert that process. There was an interesting discussion posted on HN the other day where rodney broke was suggesting the programming paradigm of cause and effect, of discrete input and output, was limiting. Can't help but to see a link between these ideas, however disparate they might be.