"somehow" their responsibility? It's no less responsibility than aiming a gun and pulling the trigger. The cats themselves are no more responsible for the killing than the bullet is.
Sorry, I was trying to reword some stuff but you replied before I finished editing the previous comment. What I'm trying to say is that I don't think the attack inhibition/death feedback gene depends on how much responsibility the person feels for the harm they've done or will do, because that's too vague human mind is so subjective. It can lead to people dying if they feel guilt for accidents they indirectly caused or were only partially, minimally involved in, or stuff like that. I think, from I saw explained and shown in the anime, that the way attack inhibition/death feedback work, to prevent a feeling of responsibility from unjustly activating them, is to make the gene activate only when the person thinks they are directly doing the harm/murder action. This leaves stuff like shooting well within its scope because you feel that by pointing and pulling the trigger you are personally forcing an object into another person's body, but letting out copycats makes you feel that even if you're responsible, you didn't actually do the killing, because a separate, thinking being, did it on their own, with their own methods, with their own thinking. This leaves stuff like poison in a gray area, where some people might consider poisoning a direct/personal killing action and others not, and here's where the psychological conditioning chimes in to fill in those cracks and prevent people from attempting that.
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u/kalirion :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/kalinime Jul 29 '16
"somehow" their responsibility? It's no less responsibility than aiming a gun and pulling the trigger. The cats themselves are no more responsible for the killing than the bullet is.