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Mathematics isn't failing here. You're mixing contexts. If you look at it from the perspective of the victim, it's less than 100% of the blame. If you look at i
by benatkin 14y ago
Mathematics isn't failing here. You're mixing contexts. If you look at it from the perspective of the victim, it's less than 100% of the blame. If you look at it from the perspective of a single perpetrator, they're 100% to blame because the other perpetrator doesn't absolve them of any of the blame. If you try to add the 100% of each perpetrator in isolation together, you're making an error.
- jlgreco 14y agoMy point isn't that mathematics is failing somehow, but rather that blame or responsibility is something that cannot be summed. Trying to do so is like trying to add up happiness and sadness. Ethics, and the underlying human emotion, don't have a system of arithmetic that we are aware of.
- benatkin 14y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U