Search results

Agreed, yet again That's why I created a highly convoluted if-scenario - to explore pure possibility and see what it can mean as it is. So in this scenario - unrealistic though it may be - does the practical guarantee of crime not overpower the factor of general usefulness of the tool? Do you...

Your last paragraph is what I have in mind Is a scenario where the crime is practically guranteed to happen not one such case? Groups are made up of specific individuals, so what applies to one should be considered by the whole, but not as though it applies directly to the whole. Why do you...

So people have no responsibility relating to probability? A question on responsibility, it is

Okay Is the idea of responsibility absolutely limited when it comes to mere forgery? Enough to make my example impractical?

Whichever, just the general idea. Is it not the same with the hammer. If you are given a system that tells you with near certainty that a crime will be committed with it, is it not like firing a bullet into the air. If a person shoots a bullet straight into the air, then it comes back down...

What do you make of the laws against firing a gun into the air in public?

My thinking is along similar lines How much of a difference does more precise knowledge make? Especially since one can choose to simply create nothing if no 'safe' alternative is found

Suppose a living and active being were to forge a hammer . . . Then, a hundred years later, this hammer is used by one person to kill another person. To what extent should the original forger of the hammer take blame for the death? Does your answer change if we say the forger knew of the...