<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">R Z Sero suggested that </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">He's guilty of lifnei iver, but not of the actual crime.</span>
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">I wonder if it might be likened to sending a fire in the hands of a Cheresh Shota or Katan BK HaKones, where the sender is Pattur only if he sent a coal that is expected to extinguish fairly quickly and requires a significant ingenuity to fan it to a flame that can cause damage. If however he sends them with a flame or I imagine a box or book of matches, he is certainly Chayav. See RaMBaM and ShA.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">Although the cases are not identical I believe that if anything the responsibility in the case of someone who puts such innocents at risk is all the greater since it is not others who are being put at risk or damaged but the innocent patsy. As the Gemara says about GeRama, AFILU - not only where another fellow removed the shield but even if the thrower of the spear removes the shield will the thrower be Pattur. Clearly the heavier act of involvement is an argument to make the instigator more likely to be guilty and punishable through BDin.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">The reason that the spear thrower is Pattur is that his action is COMPLETELY impotent since the shield is protecting the target. Unlike sending an active fire in the hands of a ChShKatan.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; ">Is it not reasonable that sending drugs in the hands of unsuspecting innocents who are transporting it to and through countries that apply the death penalty for such violations is far worse? And is indeed guilty and punishable through the BD?</span></div>
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