> One person commits a violent crime against another and you aren't holding them entirely accountable for their actions
Incorrect. Nowhere did I say or imply that.
> your looking to who they may have listened to and what they may have heard such that some blame belongs there.
That is correct.
You seem to think there's a fixed amount of total blame X and if we assign even the tiniest amount of blame to one person, then the main perpetrator must get less blame than they otherwise would. Nothing I said implies that.
> Notably you didn't engage with my analogy at all.
That's because it's not an analogy, it's a strawman.
> Would how would you legally distinguish the two scenarios?
One of them is wearing certain clothes, the other is intentionally inciting hatred and violence. If you can't make that distinction, I don't know what to tell you.
Incorrect. Nowhere did I say or imply that.
> your looking to who they may have listened to and what they may have heard such that some blame belongs there.
That is correct.
You seem to think there's a fixed amount of total blame X and if we assign even the tiniest amount of blame to one person, then the main perpetrator must get less blame than they otherwise would. Nothing I said implies that.
> Notably you didn't engage with my analogy at all.
That's because it's not an analogy, it's a strawman.
> Would how would you legally distinguish the two scenarios?
One of them is wearing certain clothes, the other is intentionally inciting hatred and violence. If you can't make that distinction, I don't know what to tell you.