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> Adults should be held accountable for their actions. Great, we agree! Tesla and its managers and owners should be held liable then for adding distractions. B
by nosianu 5y ago
> Adults should be held accountable for their actions.
Great, we agree! Tesla and its managers and owners should be held liable then for adding distractions. Because humans are not being rational computers, but biological beings that very much react to incentives. Also see "dark patterns" and "marketing", all the many ways to trick human brains often into doing things against their own rational interest (like spending money they don't have for things they don't need).
That only the final person doing something is 100% responsible for all their actions only works for humans with no history and living in an isolation chamber.
I know that that could raise the made-up counter-argument "nobody is accountable for their actions", but acknowledging what is does not prevent society from judging actions. You can do both, judge individual actions but also recognize that incentives and the bigger picture matters. You can punish individual actions such as murderer (random example) and still do something to lower the rate at which they occur.
So anyone getting distracted sure can be held accountable - but we can also do something in advance that the number of such cases is lowered.