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No, because making your car a target for theft happens because of a defective and impotent anti-theft system, and this process happens before the cars arrive where they can be stolen. It’s upstream responsibility being pushed to downstream forces because upstream responsibility failed to take responsibility or do their job.

Chronology matters.

Consider it more like selling locks that don’t lock properly to customers who expect their locks to work like any other lock, then blaming criminals for taking advantage of the situation. Because that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.

And of course it’s also specific to the manufacturer and almost all other manufacturers don’t have this problem.

So while it can technically be “blamed on the criminals” it’s objectively incorrect. It’s also objectively incorrect to blame the police for not doing their job. Or for customers for not keeping their cars safe. This is a product defect from the manufacturer that has killed a lot of people at this point and which they need to take care of, and this whole line of reasoning is their attempt to deflect legal responsibility as the situation is getting completely out of hand.

parent happytiger 3 years ago

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