• Live Your Lives@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Say I custom built a gun and gave it to someone I know who obviously has severe mental issues: do you think I would have no responsibility for the actions that other person takes? By your logic it seems like I shouldn’t, since the mentally ill person has all the time in the world before they end up making a terrible decision.

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      2 days ago

      do you think I would have no responsibility for the actions that other person takes?

      Yep: not your problem. That person needs a handler, and you’re not theirs. We can give people informed choices. We have no duty to defend someone from their own irrationality.