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What does "those responsible" even mean?

There are a lot of people that directly share some of the responsibility for failing to properly treat the Flint River water after the switch (and for switching in the first place).

But for instance, are the people that voted to start bankrupting the city in 1985 also responsible for the crisis?

How about the people that failed to replace their lead water supply lines after it became clear how dangerous lead can be?

And on and on.



Are you advocating that no one be held responsible? Of course things can be complicated, but in light of the evidence, it isn't as hard to disentangle as you suggest.


Not at all. In a case like Flint there will be people with clear culpability for the poor decisions that were made.

But there are millions of lead service lines elsewhere in the US (the pipes from the street to the house).

Who's "responsible" for them?


Wouldn't the answer to this question depend on which pipes you're talking about? Are you arguing that Flint is the only place where lead had a cause?


Kind of amazing that somebody twice asks "who's responsible?" and instead of an answer to a straightforward question, they're accused of claiming nobody is responsible. Why not just answer the question?


> a straightforward question

It's not a question with an objective, simple and thus straightforward answer.


All the more reason not to attack the person asking it.




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