> On Sep 17, 4:15 pm, "jonathan" write.instead.net> wrote:
>

>> A decision is typically the result of a series of events.
>> So is a storm, an idea or the builders of a house.
>> A process, a system or a person is nothing more than semantics.

>

>> The definition has nothing to say about that which is being
>> credited as responsible.

>
> You fail it (it is reading the dictionary). Again: "liable", "called
> on to answer", "called to account". If your house falls down in a
> storm because of shoddy construction, you can't take the idea of
> "construction" to court, and you can't sue thunderclouds. It's the
> builders who are "liable", "called on to answer", "called to
> account". Hence Mr. P's statement that a mere "process" isn't
> "responsible" for anything, certainly not to a degree requiring it to
> be worshipped as a deity. (Which is itself a logical stretch: I don't
> see anybody building shrines to construction workers or farmers, even
> though they're "responsible" for putting roofs over our heads and food
> on our tables.)