To be fair, it’s a surprisingly cultural trait where different cultures have different attitudes to how much bad intent is different from action, and there is a use in trying to distinguish between bad behavior and bad mental states, that said if the US and Europe moved more towards norms in which we didn’t distinguish as much between bad behavior and bad intent for the purposes of stopping the behavior, I do think it would be better (I think Zack M Davis norms is directionally correct from a personal epistemics view and for the general population in the US, though not as far as he would go):
To be fair, it’s a surprisingly cultural trait where different cultures have different attitudes to how much bad intent is different from action, and there is a use in trying to distinguish between bad behavior and bad mental states, that said if the US and Europe moved more towards norms in which we didn’t distinguish as much between bad behavior and bad intent for the purposes of stopping the behavior, I do think it would be better (I think Zack M Davis norms is directionally correct from a personal epistemics view and for the general population in the US, though not as far as he would go):
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zidQmfFhMgwFzcHhs/enemies-vs-malefactors#jCfNxzCEniu7Ak8bF
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zidQmfFhMgwFzcHhs/enemies-vs-malefactors#p9oYLR8wTQtYrKnnn