Re: Clay Shirky's nuanced position on Wikileaks

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Lance McLain wrote:

>> On Monday, as soon as I came home with the kids from preschool, I went 
>> to the bathroom.  When I came out no more than a few minutes later, the 
>> lights were out and my daughter had already lit a candle on the table 
>> and put the box of matches back in the cupboard above the kitchen 
>> counter (she had dragged a chair into the kitchen to get the matches). 
>> Did I "allow" her to take the matches, light the fire, and so on and so 
>> forth?
>
> Well, if the matches are such and important issue to you that you'd 
> severely punish your daughter even on false charges for playing with 
> them, then yes, you didn't secure the matches well enough.

Whoa, I'm losing track of the analogies here ...

> But I feel we are just playing semantic games.  Would you like me to 
> change the word "allow"?  How about "failed" or "fault" or 
> something...better?

I don't think it's mere semantics when we're assigning blame.

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