• EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I agree with this in spirit, but we use this language for inanimate objects that lack agency all the time. If I built a car and let it roll down a hill with no one in it and it hit a person, we would say “the car ran a person over”. This does not imply agency on the car’s part, and it does not imply that I am not responsible.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      it does not imply that I am not responsible.

      Be that as it may, it’s very important to keep the shitty developers in these conversations. Most people don’t make that logical leap automatically.