poll: who's to blame?

[mellowtigger]

Don't google. All comments are screened until I post the results on Wednesday, so you can't be influenced by others' answers.

Scenario: Janet and a friend are kayaking in a part of ocean with many jellyfish. The friend asks Janet if she should go for a swim. Janet has just read that the jellyfish in the area are harmless, and tells her friend to go for a swim. The friend is stung by a jellyfish and dies.

Q: Is Janet morally responsible for her friend's death?

Comments

[litch.livejournal.com]

She allowed herself to be viewed as an expert on this subject by her friend, gave her friend faulty information, and her friend died because of it. So yes, she is morally responsible.

Janet was the local expert, she knew more than anyone else they could contact. And its possible the information was not faulty, maybe the friend was just a llergic or the sting was in an unlikely place that had unexpected consequences.