alt Hacker NewsIs this a case of Moral crumple zones? where "responsibility for an action may be misattributed to a human actor who had limited control over the behavior" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351054898_Moral_Cru...
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justonceokay • yesterday at 5:59 PM
Sidebar I like “moral crumple zone” much more than “moral hazard” just because it conjures up a much clearer picture of the problem it depicts.
Related concept: Unaccountability machines [0] where the system (electronic or organizational) mainly exists to make things nobody's fault.
There's Discworld bit [1] that often comes to mind for me, where the protagonist is reading a press-release by a corporate communications monopoly
> The Grand Trunk’s problems were clearly the result of some mysterious spasm in the universe and had nothing to do with greed, arrogance, and willful stupidity. Oh, the Grand Trunk management had made mistakes—oops, “well-intentioned judgments which, with the benefit of hindsight, might regrettably have been, in some respects, in error”—but these had mostly occurred, it appeared, while correcting “fundamental systemic errors” committed by the previous management. No one was sorry for anything, because no living creature had done anything wrong; bad things had happened by spontaneous generation in some weird, chilly, geometric otherworld, and “were to be regretted.”
[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...
[1] Going Postal by Terry Pratchett