Who’s at fault?

Fascinating case — who’s at fault here?

Man cheats workers here, man blackmails workers here. In order to stop being blackmailed, workers run away. But before they run away, they tie the man up to prevent him from calling the police. If the police gets them, they will be jailed & caned for being illegal immigrants, even though they were cheated by that man.

The workers call the man’s girlfriend to tell her that they saw he’s been tied up. She thinks its a ploy he’s doing to get her back because they quarreled a few days before. She tells the caller to go call the police himmself.

The next day (3rd day of being tied up) she goes to his flat, but realises she forgot her keys. She leaves after no one answers the door. The next day she returns with the keys, to find his body.

The workers are arrested, punished for being illegal immigrants and for killing the man.

 

 

4 years’ jail for 4 —- Workers tied, gagged landlord; to silence him
Weekend • May 30, 2009 by Ong Dai Lin (dailin@mediacorp.com.sg)

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/323043print.asp

 

 

Who’s at fault??? Morality wise, not what’s legal

 

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What if the 4 were a family of Jews — parents, 2 young kids? And the man was a Nazi supporter blackmailing them & threatening to expose their identities as jews? And they tied them up to get away before the Nazis killed them (say this was during the WWII era)? Whose fault is it then, that the guy died?

 

What if the 4 men were theives? And they tied up the man who was blackmailing them in order to get away? Whose fault is it then?

 

[ After note : Do read the comments, especially the one raised by Siong which I think raised 2 very interesting points. I've explained in my comment back to Siong, why those are 2 very interesting points to think about ]