Where to Point the Finger

In many cases it is hard to figure out what causes some malady, though that doesn't seem to matter to legislators and other do-gooders.

Aside #4 out of 5: If someone does something bad in an attempt to do something good, are they still a do-gooder or are they now an evil-doer? Or can we coin a new name, a do-gooder-evil-doer?

Further muddying the waters is the difficulty of figuring out whether something is good or bad. An Israeli company has produced a kosher cell phone. That's right, kosher. It's a cell phone that only makes calls. No web, no games, no text messaging, no video, no camera. They consider all the of those extras to be evil because they make it easier to do or access evil things. But many people really like those features and don't do things with them that they think are bad. So are these features good or bad?

Which got me to thinking about the causality side of these features: if one goes blind wanking off to porn viewed on a cell phone display, was it the wanking off or the eye-strain which caused the blindness?