7 February 2018 - not responsibility

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The Indirect Thinking of a Social Species

“We will not be responsible for the result” claims responsibility for the result, which is expected to be bad, and simultaneously denies fault. You might think that “fault” means responsibility for something bad, if you are some kind of emotionless logical positivist, but no. It’s your fault if people blame you, a purely social action. If you think you are beginning to understand, you haven’t learned yet.

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