apenwarr's rules These appear to neglect buyin, collective agreements, and other forms of teamwork. Perhaps the uncertainty principle applies somehow to your quantization premise. If no person is an island then perhaps individual responsibility and social actions cannot be perfectly quantized. Perhaps a script kiddie is not totally responsible when he/she paralyzes millions of corporate American desktops via a few keystrokes .... perhaps the hacker who made the base virus pattern easily obtained public domain information, or the Microsoft collective that chose to release incredibly insecure software to end users, or the IT and other executives who choose to stick with known defective desktop standards are entangled somehow with the quantum of personal responsibility.