Conspirators outsourced decision-making to chance to avoid agentic responsibility

Evidence

Taken together, intentionality and proportionality are mental assumptions that make conspiracism “far more coherent than the real world, since it leaves no room for mistakes, failures, or ambiguities.” The result is coherence at the expense of truth. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 117 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Industries outsource research to shift moral accountability to proxy agents — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1829; Conspiracism offers greater coherence than reality by excluding chance and ambiguity — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 117; Diffused agency in drone networks fabricates irresponsibility by diluting intentionality into accident — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 665 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Conspiracism offers greater coherence than reality by excluding chance and ambiguity #complicates (0.76) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 117