I agree that we are each individually responsible for our own actions.
However, tempting someone else to do wrong is, in itself, wrong.

We arrest prostitutes before the act.

Manson didn't commit any murders but he is in prison for getting others
to do it.

NIV Matt 18:7
"Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such
things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!


Bruce Toback wrote:

> Greg Stigers writes:
>
>
>>One of the criticisms that some parts of the Islamic world levels against
>>the U.S. is that we export our popular culture, and that this popular
>>culture is obscene. This is one of the few charges I take seriously.
>>
>
> Oh, come now. This is like the United States holding Colombia responsible
> for the fact that a bunch of US citizens use drugs. If they don't like
> the popular culture, they shouldn't partake. What, is someone forcing
> them to tune in reruns of _Baywatch_?
>
> The idea that the person offering temptation is responsible for the
> corruption of the person who succumbs to it is the basis of Mark Twain's
> short story, "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg" (available from Project
> Gutenberg at
> <ftp://sailor.gutenberg.org/pub/gutenberg/etext98/hdlyb10.txt>). A fun
> read. Such a pity that its happy ending is pure fantasy.
>
> -- Bruce
>
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