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What happened was a crime. What are we as a collective supposed to do? Routinely exterminate criminals? Develop pre-crime police units? Build a large well-monitored wall around protected areas? What is the big insight that we as as a collective are supposed to learn from the supposed collective guilt?

There's literally a very small amount of people responsible for this atrocity and I hope they serve adequate sentences in prison for their crimes.

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We as humans set the larger context for greed and the use of force to achieve that greed. We don't need those trees in the ever expanding amount of forest we cut down, but we can trade money for it, and thus the present robs from the future in the same way it robs those villagers of their life.

When a child gets run over by a car, all of society is at fault for valuing the driver, car and road over everything else. Self driving cars or better traffic design is simply an optimization and not a re-examination of the underlying contract.

We as a collective think we're so wise and helpful by discussing how guilty we are in a mostly tech-oriented message board.

> What are we as a collective supposed to do? Routinely exterminate criminals?

There are a zillion ways to reduce crime in a more friendly manner. I'm not an expert but what comes to mind are reducing the incentive to engage in criminal activity in the first place (economic factors could be at play), proper education, social projects, gun control, early psychopathological diagnosis, ...

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