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> but overall effectively harmless, right? What do you mean? If I am negligent while driving and have an accident, regardless of someone dying, I have to pay t

• xupybd 5y ago
  Because China is powerful and easily agitated.
  • proc0 5y ago
    Them threatening with more destruction instead of taking at least some responsibility will not look good on them, lol. But I guess we'll see how things unfold (no idea).
• perl4ever 5y ago
  If you are driving along, and a part breaks in your car, which causes you to crash into someone, it would be surprising to me if you were held criminally culpable, and rather unusual if someone made a civil case out of it. In theory, you could be grossly and obviously negligent. But just driving a car that has some failure doesn't make for a strong presumption. I've known multiple people who had a significant part of their suspension break/collapse, either due to age and wear or manufacturing defect or a combination. But thinking about what makes the news, what does seem to be considered a criminal or civil matter is where, say, a major failure happens and then it turns out that for instance, a mechanic who was supposed to service it forged the paperwork and did nothing. I'm saying by analogy, if a lab had a failure but their procedure was not that different from other labs, then it's not fair to assess them as negligent even if with hindsight we need to set new standards. The contribution of bad luck has to be considered and not just say the probability of all other failures is zero because they didn't happen.