I don’t get where the assertion that knowledge doesn’t lead to manipulation comes from. If you give a child something that looks like a water gun but actually fires a chemical round you would be on the hook to be responcible for any deaths, despite the child puling triggers would be their free choice. It isn’t even that hard to imagine that you could cognitively dominate the child in that you could reliably predict what they would be up to. There that your tool for murder is an agent with will doesn’t bear that much weight.
Consider neglient manslaughter where you had a duty to do something proper, which infact lead to death but whic you could not reasonably anticipate the specific death happening. Upping your your ability to anticipate things will push things into manslaughter and murder.
In a similar way if you pull a trigger on a gun which you think is loaded but is in fact empty you can be guilty of attempted murder despite there not being a real risk of anyone dying. Thinking (if the thought isn’t ridicously insane) that the eggs are connected to the launch success or not would totally make you culpable for the launch (not that anyone would catch you).
I don’t get where the assertion that knowledge doesn’t lead to manipulation comes from. If you give a child something that looks like a water gun but actually fires a chemical round you would be on the hook to be responcible for any deaths, despite the child puling triggers would be their free choice. It isn’t even that hard to imagine that you could cognitively dominate the child in that you could reliably predict what they would be up to. There that your tool for murder is an agent with will doesn’t bear that much weight.
Consider neglient manslaughter where you had a duty to do something proper, which infact lead to death but whic you could not reasonably anticipate the specific death happening. Upping your your ability to anticipate things will push things into manslaughter and murder.
In a similar way if you pull a trigger on a gun which you think is loaded but is in fact empty you can be guilty of attempted murder despite there not being a real risk of anyone dying. Thinking (if the thought isn’t ridicously insane) that the eggs are connected to the launch success or not would totally make you culpable for the launch (not that anyone would catch you).