Horses are, by all accounts, far more dangerous than Ford Pintos. And yet, since we concede that they possess some measure of agency, we tend to blame the horse

Horses are, by all accounts, far more dangerous than Ford Pintos. And yet, since we concede that they possess some measure of agency, we tend to blame the horse rather than the stable. I’ve often thought that our ultimate measure of a “person” is the ability to accept liability.