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The goat is without sin insofar as the humans are concerned, the sins in question are unambiguously those committed by the people, not the goat. If the goat co
by mcpackieh 3y ago
The goat is without sin insofar as the humans are concerned, the sins in question are unambiguously those committed by the people, not the goat. If the goat committed his own goaty sins, that's irrelevant. Those hypothetical goat sins are unknown to the humans and don't factor into the goat's execution.
In the figurative or colloquial sense of the expression, a scapegoat is a person being punished for something other people did. They might also be a bad person in other unrelated ways, but what makes them a scapegoat is the part where they're punished for something they didn't do, for something other people did. You cannot be a scapegoat if you actually did the thing you're being punished for.
In both cases, the scapegoat is punished for something somebody else did. The biblical meaning and the colloquial meaning align neatly, there is no meaningful distinction here. SBF is to be punished for his own crimes, not for the crimes of other cryptobros, so he is not in any sense a scapegoat. Not in the biblical sense, nor in the colloquial sense.