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Earthquake trial?

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Posted 2014-July-25, 03:08

View Postgwnn, on 2014-July-24, 04:55, said:

What if the engineers who build a bridge enter centimeters instead of kilometers (when configuring some security mechanism) and the bridge collapses, killing 100 people? Are they only culpable if they secretly advised their family members to avoid it? The two cases are not identical but I can't put my finger on why not.


As an aside, in the Ottoman empire if an engineer built a bridge and that bridge collapsed, the engineer was put to death...
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Posted 2014-July-27, 09:44

View Posthrothgar, on 2014-July-25, 03:08, said:

As an aside, in the Ottoman empire if an engineer built a bridge and that bridge collapsed, the engineer was put to death...

And in the 17th century, women were burned for being witches.
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