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Originally Posted by HarryT
But is the same not true of the example I used of passing a virus onto someone? The person is dead, whether you intended them to be or not. Most people would, I think, accept that the person concerned cannot be held responsible for that, though.
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I don't think the analogy with influenza is so good. For one thing it's extremely rare - given the number of people who gets the flu - that someone dies from it, and you would not be able to show that it was passed on from one specific person.
However, what my main point was, that there is guilt, no matter what, because she did the act. Also, she did not take her medication as regulerly as she should, and she continued to live in circumstances that enhanced her problems.
In our time and place we usually decide not to punish such a deed as this because of the condition the women were in, and I actually agree on that. I just don't like the idea that she is somehow innocent or "absolved".