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Comment by tomxor

5 months ago

"Sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from negligence"

FTFY :)

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andrewflnr  5 months ago

Funny, but no. The broader principle is that even if something could conceivably be "negligence", you eventually have to treat it as malice. The possibility of hiding malice in the guise of negligence is only one of the reasons that's true.

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