> It's also not Google's fault that media known for being wildly off-base when reporting on technical news was predictably off-base again.
Er, yes it is? Or rather, to make a finer point, it was their responsibility—i.e., they knew the causal chain that would inevitably result from their action and chose to perform that action anyway.
If you knowingly give an alcoholic a drink, you’re responsible for them falling off the wagon.
If you leave your pet mouse out next to your pet cat and leave the room, you’re responsible when the mouse is eaten.
If you can clearly foresee something bad happening, and you have an alternative path that avoids that thing happening, and you choose to go down the path where the thing happens: your responsibility.
That’s not to say that nobody else is responsible. Responsibility is not exclusive. A war, for example, is the responsibility of two parties—either side can just give in to the demands of the other, to avoid it. Both parties, in their choice to not give in, are responsible for the war.
Er, yes it is? Or rather, to make a finer point, it was their responsibility—i.e., they knew the causal chain that would inevitably result from their action and chose to perform that action anyway.
If you knowingly give an alcoholic a drink, you’re responsible for them falling off the wagon.
If you leave your pet mouse out next to your pet cat and leave the room, you’re responsible when the mouse is eaten.
If you can clearly foresee something bad happening, and you have an alternative path that avoids that thing happening, and you choose to go down the path where the thing happens: your responsibility.
That’s not to say that nobody else is responsible. Responsibility is not exclusive. A war, for example, is the responsibility of two parties—either side can just give in to the demands of the other, to avoid it. Both parties, in their choice to not give in, are responsible for the war.