If you teach someone something, are you responsible for what that person does with that knowledge?

That depends. If I am a munitions expert and you come to me and ask how to blow up the 59th Street Bridge, and I teach you how to do it, yes, the teacher is responsible.

If I teach chemistry at a community college and you use the knowledge to do the same thing, no, the teacher is not responsible.

Is every driving instructor responsible for every speeding ticket their students get?

It depends. If you teach someone something in the knowledge or strong suspicion that they intend to use the knowledge wrongly - for example, showing someone how to make a bomb - then, yes, I believe you are responsible.

But imparting knowledge about ordinary everyday things is rather different. If you teach a child how to light a match safely, under supervision, I do not believe you are responsible if, a year later, the child uses that knowledge to burn down your neighbour's house...

Yes. This is a major theme in movies too. Teacher versus student. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, a expert bombsquad captain was teaching a genius (later to be called Fat Man) how to build bombs, little did he know that his apprentice would use bombs for evil. The captain believes he is responsible for creating the monster, and it is true. If the world's best bomb expert had not taught a genius to build bombs, then so many casualties would not have been afflicted

Depends what you teach them. If you teach them to be an assasin, then yes, you do bear some responsibility, since that 'skill' can only be used for illegal purposes.

Depends on what you teach them, if that knowledge is illegal like building a bomb or something then yeah you will be held accountable.

Everyone is responsible for what they do. Now, suppose someone tells you they wan to know how to kill someone and you tell them how to then you're partly responsible for that but other than extremes cases such as that I don't think anyone is responsible for what other people do with what you've taught them.

I guess it depends if you are teaching them illegal things or not. You may be leaving yourself to open to be sued, if the person can prove that you were the person who taught them in the first place.

Yes, either good or bad consequences of what you taught. But not really entirely because there are several other factors that will influence the person to do something good or bad, not just of what you taught him or her.

well, maybe. it depends what kind of knowledge it is. the responsibility is shared, i think.

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You don´t responsible,because everyone is responsible of your actions. So that you don´t have the fault.

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