But sometimes I have a paranoid notion that the managerial and legal class have constructed systems where they contain some liability into a black box, then hire someone unknowing to live in the box. The people outside the box are just designing the process and “relying” on the box to behave as expected. The people inside the box don’t know about the context and therefore don’t have mens rea. Nobody is guilty of a crime.
The story in this thread tickles that paranoia. I can imagine a person on one side who has implemented a compliance checking system, where as long as nothing gets flagged by the black box, the system reads “compliant”. It turns out the person in the black box is deleting the non compliant records. But they don’t realize that they are allowing someone to falsely fulfill their compliance certification, they are just making the box work.