If we can have a murder investigation and assign partial blame for people that are just there while the crime is being committed, why cant we do it for something that harms the entire human race?
Just because we don't have a great framework for something today doesn't mean we should not have it, just that incentives have been against it up to this point.
>If we can have a murder investigation and assign partial blame for people that are just there while the crime is being committed, why cant we do it for something that harms the entire human race?
Check the bank balance of the people being convicted for being present when a crime is committed.
Compare it to the bank balance of the people who harm the entire human race.
Yeah, see my second sentence - throwing up your hands and claiming inaction isn't the way to solve anything. Saying "but the billionaires don't want it!!" sure, let me pre-give up so its super easy for them to keep winning.
A recent article in The Atlantic said that one scientist would know it's harmful to humans and another would know it's in all human blood and 3M made sure they'd never meet.
So the scientist who knew it was harmful didn't know it was everywhere and the scientist who knew it was everywhere didn't know it was harmful.
Point is that it's possible to silo scientists in this way so they can't see the big picture.
Who is "them"? The scientists at the time? The managers at the time? The managers now? The stockholders who have already sold and made their profits?