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▲ rmarques7 2 hours ago

If the user has a special remote that, when pressed in a certain way, is capable of triggering a nuclear bomb, and if the user has no idea what clicking the buttons on that remote does (they are, after all, just trying to change channels), you’re telling me that the user is responsible for detonating that bomb, and not the company who build the remote (and did not provide detailed instructions on how that remote works, or configure the remote to Not detonate a bomb)?

▲OJFord an hour ago | parent | next [-]

IANAL but it seems to me that:

i) it would not be weird to be tried for manslaughter;

ii) it would not be weird to be found innocent/for the case to be dismissed.

Generally people prefer not to experience (i) even if they can expect (ii).

▲gruez an hour ago | parent | next [-]

>i) it would not be weird to be tried for manslaughter;

What's the point of prosecution in this case, assuming the circumstances were known in advance? Is it just "police/prosecutors are pigs and are out to oppress people at every opportunity"?

▲59percentmore an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In America, prosecutors will not bring charges unless they're certain they can convict or browbeat you into a plea deal. Unless you have money for a good lawyer (the spending of which is a punishment itself), you will likely face some sort of punishment.

▲phyzix5761 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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▲sigmoid10 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Usually, any functioning government that wants their country to keep existing would never let normal people anywhere close to such a remote. You wouldn't want your nuclear power plant to be accessible like a music festival either. But governments are slow and people were also allowed to freely buy and own uranium as late as the 1970s.

▲glitchcrab 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

It is a thought experiment, not a real scenario

▲sigmoid10 12 minutes ago | parent [-]

It was an explanation for why we see this allegedly insane behaviour. History is full of stuff that we consider ridiculously unsafe today with the benefit of hindsight. But people were not that different. They just didn't know better.

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