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To: Edwarda who wrote (50603)	8/11/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The misery is not caused by the product but by the abusers of the product, whether it be alcohol or guns or automobiles Can't acts have multiple causes? Are the people who run guns to the IRA not at least partly responsible for the deaths they cause? Is Milosovic not responsible for any deaths in Kosovo because he didn't actually pull the trigger, or even give any direct orders to any soldiers, but only put everything in place so that the orders got issued and the bullets flew? I assume you think McDonalds should not have been guilty for selling scalding hot coffee because the woman who got burned was doing something stupid with it and abusing the product? (No paper or foam cup is intended to be held between the thighs while both hands are used taking off the lid and stirring in sugar.) Even though many people had been burned previously and McDonalds knew it, and deliberately decided not to turn down the temperature? Everything that happens happens as a chain of events. (Heck, if you want to you can go back to the fact that an event wouldn't have happened if sometime hundreds of years ago two people hadn't had sex.) My position is that responsibility isn't necessarily and always limited to the last person in the chain.