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Parents are responsible to a extent they could have predicted the actions of the child. There are many cases where parents are clearly not held responsible by
by AstralStorm 7y ago
Parents are responsible to a extent they could have predicted the actions of the child.
There are many cases where parents are clearly not held responsible by law, including outright cases of murder. (Usually considered as manslaughter with equivalent of insanity defense.)
Unless you are of the position that everyone is guilty, by induction.
In case of HAL, the negligence case is clear because there existed a perfect simulator - SAL. SAL was not given the secret orders, which is clearly endangering the crew.
Whoever is responsible for that difference clearly knew that changing the orders made the simulation invalid. It's similar to Boeing 737 MAX case.
- dschuetz 7y agoI agree, parents do not have 'total' control over their kids, but they have to ensure their well-being, get medical care in cases of illness (physical, mental). If they neglect that responsibility, they are as equally responsible for any outcome, "your mileage might vary" depending what laws your state has. Same goes for engineers, they cannot completely control the durability of, say, steel, hence they cannot be held accountable for bad quality of steel (except for poor judgement buying cheap/bad steel). But someone else is responsible for quality. And so on. So, yes, with untested scenarios (like "secret orders") responsibility fall into the hands of those who imposed the orders and omitted crucial tests. It's not even the engineers fault anymore.