..It is a team effort and the whole team is at fault when anything goes wrong because any 1 person could have stopped the chain of events leading to he event.
This is really an apt description of the legal claim
.... but-for.... in finding responsibility to share in the judicial findings.
My liking is for the application of multiple barriers against such
but-Fors
and so I use the terms
... in-spite-of.. to identify potentials for barriers to prevent a bleak day from really turning bad.
Thus when I search for corrective actions following a causal chain in an accident I am more inclined to look at whether it's easier to improve the
...in-spite-ofs... rather than thinking that I can eliminate all the
..but-fors...