> The correct response, if (as in this case) they were warned, is to say “someone did warn you, pay more attention next time”, then walk away[1].
In reality, this does far more harm than good. In almost all cases this goes wrong because of the 'little learning is a dangerous thing' problem. People tend to be in two camps:
- Don't care, don't want to fiddle with the thing, the manufacturer has to do everything
- Knowing just enough to break things, but not enough to fix it (and thus it is the fault of the manufacturer)
Other types like the 'I am the owner, I make the rules' crowd are insignificantly small.
This means that in the real world (so not in an echochamber) you only get one scaled and realistic scenario: the user creates problems (for themselves, others), but cannot fix them, and everyone/everything not-user then has to care for them to deal with it.
In an ideal theoretical world we might say that the end-user has to be responsible, and they have to make infinite mistakes and learn everything so they can become good caretakers of their networked systems. But that is not reality, and is not realistic.