Obviously they’re different in many ways but as a society we can’t really call things an accident when they’re eminently predictable from the systems we’ve built. So while they may be accidental from the point of the individual perpetrator, both of these things are equally intentional from a public policy standpoint.
This is essentially what some leftists call “social murder”, which is when killing certain people becomes acceptable as long as you’re not directly responsible for it and those people just die as consequences of societal actions, or as a “cost of doing business”.
Obviously they’re different in many ways but as a society we can’t really call things an accident when they’re eminently predictable from the systems we’ve built. So while they may be accidental from the point of the individual perpetrator, both of these things are equally intentional from a public policy standpoint.
This is essentially what some leftists call “social murder”, which is when killing certain people becomes acceptable as long as you’re not directly responsible for it and those people just die as consequences of societal actions, or as a “cost of doing business”.
Great term, I hadn’t heard it. Thanks.