X-men problem

[ipaps]

If somehow X gets the ability to connect his brain to others' because of a genetic mutation.

Then

Are we going to hold him responsible for others' bad actions?

On one hand, we know he can easily make others do bad things. On the other hand, those people can also decide by himself to do bad things, or even do bad things and accuse X for controlling them.

What do you think?

 

[there4eyeM]

If somehow X gets the ability to connect his brain to others' because of a genetic mutation.

Then

Are we going to hold him responsible for others' bad actions?

On one hand, we know he can easily make others do bad things. On the other hand, those people can also decide by himself to do bad things, or even do bad things and accuse X for controlling them.

What do you think?

I think that Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin did not personally kill many, if any, of the victims attributed to them. What is the difference between some sort of direct link to thinking and the general control over people's actions? We could say one is voluntary (people obey by choice), but I don't think that if we polled the soldiers of the Wehrmacht they would say they had a choice regarding orders.