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ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
8. Your old lady example is the correct application.
Sat Dec 31, 2011, 12:57 AM
Dec 2011

Old_lady_A is dead because criminal_B committed a crime.

In the case of the OP, criminal_A is dead because criminal_A committed a crime. This is no one else to blame for this. If criminal_A had not been committing the crime, criminal_A would still be alive.

I have no problem with the idea that when criminal_A kills guard_B while criminals C and D are emptying the cash draws then criminals C and D share in the blame for the death of the non-criminal. However, this is not the case at hand.


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