If you witness child abuse and say nothing, you bear some responsibility for its continuation.

If you’re the top health official of the country and spread doubt about numerous public health interventions, including actively suppressing research showing their safety and efficacy, yes, you’re guilty as fuck.

Hope this helps clarify things.

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baggy_trough 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Of course he’s probably wrong about much of that. Punishing him for it in a court, if that’s what you mean, would be illiberal and grotesque.

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ceejayoz 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why? It’s negligent homicide.

It’s just so diffuse that it doesn’t fit in our crime model. Like polluters who shave years off an entire neighborhood’s lives via health impacts.

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baggy_trough an hour ago | parent [-]

Because an opinion can’t rise to homicide, even if it influences policy. That’s not what homicide is. Instead, it’s simply bad policy, to be punished at the ballot box.

	▲	ceejayoz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Bad policy that needlessly kills thousands of people should be punishable outside the ballot box. If your policy of letting kindergarteners play with grenades goes bad, you go to jail.