"Ron" > wrote
> "Dutch" >

>> >>
>> >> > The question was who taught you that you or I was responsible for
>> >> > the
>> >> > outcomes of other people's actions.
>> >>
>> >> It's called complicity. In legal jargon it's "accessory".
>> >
>> > Using cultural, or national laws really undermines your argument. Many
>> > of the acts that are illegal (and therefore immoral) are legal
>> > elsewhere
>> > and therefore moral.
>>
>> Morality doesn't matter to the principle. If you aid, abet or encourage a
>> person to commit an act of mercy you have complicity in that act as well.
>
> Really. If I encourage someone to return money that has been recovered
> and there is a reward then, I am morally and obviously legally entitled
> to part of that reward?

Nobody is entitled to a reward for returning lost money, you opportunist.

> Further, if one encourages one to use pot responsibly and they die as a
> result of the responsible pot use then too are complicit in that death?

Encouraging responsible pot use to a pot user probably *adds* years to their
life.

> Should we discuss the Good Samaritan laws as further examples of where
> you are mistaken.

You haven't found a single instance where I have been mistaken yet, but you
will eventually if you keep trying long enough. You will pronounce yourself
victorious at that point in time no doubt.

>> You really are hopelessly lost trying to win an argument with me on these
>> subjects, I understand them far better than you ever will.
>
> It's been suggested that you were a former police officer. I suspect any
> former police officer could recite the criminal code far better than I
> ever could. That a policy academy though would be any demonstration of
> the ability to clearly argue a position IS another matter.
>
> So, in what jurisdiction are you claiming an expertise?
>
> As I have been stating all along, Dutch, it is a principle that is
> inconsistently applied. Further, it is not universal or absolute.

Complicity is a natural principle that is found in logic, morality, law, in
some form in most every discipline. That it may be unevenly applied in laws
or elsewhere should come as no surprise, human social constructs are
imperfect.