Anti-Climacus

THE EPITOME OF IDIOCY:

"Hello everyone,

The next philosophy club meeting will be Thursday, the 26th at 7pm in the
basement of the Coffee Beanery (formerly Cava Java) on South University. Bring
your favorite ethical dilemmas, real or imagined, for everyone to ponder.
Here's an example stolen from the movie "Magnolia":

Johnny hates his life. His parents fight all the time and make being at home a
horrible experience. When his parents fight, his mother always picks up his
father's shotgun and threatens to shoot her husband. Johnny knows this, so he
loads the normally unloaded shotgun in the hope that his mother will actually
kill his father and all this horrible fighting will come to an end right there.
Johnny's parents don't fight for a long time and Johnny forgets about the
loaded shotgun. Then one day his parents do get in a terrible fight. Johnny
can't take it anymore so he goes on the roof of their apartment building to
jump off and kill himself, suicide note in his pocket. The very moment Johnny
jumps off the building to kill himself, Johnny's mother is downstairs arguing
with her husband. She picks up the shotgun and threatens to shoot her husband.
The gun goes off and the bullet flies out the window and hits Johnny in the
chest on his suicidal fall towards the pavement. What Johnny didn't know was
that some workmen had set up a safety net for some window washers coming by the
building later. Johnny would have survived the fall had he not been hit by the
bullet fired by his mother as he fell from the roof.

SO, who's fault is it that Johnny died?"