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The fact that we're talking about a guy doesn't change my opinion.

The guy is responsible. The situation is unfortunate, of course, but what was the guy thinking? He put his neighbors as well as his property at risk. AirBnB should help the police catch the perps, but past that, AirBnB…

Whether the AirBnB host was a guy or a gal shouldn't matter, and it doesn't.

Whether the AirBnB host was a guy or a gal shouldn't matter, but it does.

Both AirBnB and the guy share responsibility. Sure, the guy had tools he didn't use, but AirBnB works on this all day every day. They have money, so they should pay some of his actual damages, say $15-20k.

AirBnB should go over the top for the guy. They should repair the property, pay out the remainder of his lease, and pay to put him up in a nice place somewhere else. $100k.

AirBnB is really at fault here. They should pay his actual damages and restore his property. $50k.

It's OK for us to have different standards here.

AirBnB is completely at fault and created such egregiously false expectations that the guy has no responsibility at all and is the victim of not just the tweakers, but AirBnB's misrepresentations. They should pay for…

The fact that we're talking about a guy now changes my opinion on this.

The gulf oil spill is a canonical example of a "low-probability, high-impact event." Everyone who cared knew that this sort of thing could happen, but the risk was widely perceived as tolerable. What other high-impact…

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