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aeonik • today at 10:19 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Because the outage didn't lead to the poisoning. Operator negligience and poor design did.

If I built a chlorine tank out of toothpicks and duct tape, and it leaks everywhere and kills people, you don't publish a headline that says DuctTape and Global Toothpicks Inc are responsible for chlorine deaths.


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fasterik • today at 10:27 PM

"A leads to B" means that A resulted in B. It doesn't imply that A was the root cause of B or deserves blame for B. For example, "heavy rainfall leads to flooding" can be true as a factual statement, even if the blame goes to poor drainage infrastructure. Also, the headline is in German and translates as "15 guests injured in Phantasialand".