When you stop thinking in terms or "I" and start thinking "we" things can change dramatically.Is that because people feel less culpable if the culpability is spread?There is a diffusion of responsibility, yes.
Allin's culpability follows a more obvious sequence of cause and effect.
So, for all the breast-beating in the pastoral letter, there is no acknowledgment of Benedict's own culpability.
Harm done and personal culpability are the watchwords followed by looking carefully at any mitigation.
It is time the US as well as the Sri Lankan government's acknowledge the culpability of its respective militaries, the "securing of peace" notwithstanding.
Magistrates must distinguish the professional criminal from the easily led and every shade of culpability in between – and make the punishment fit the criminal.
Michael Kirby, the chair of the report, personally wrote to Kim Jong-un to warn him that he could face trial at The Hague for his personal culpability in crimes against humanity.
British culpability in Mr Belhadj's case is far less clear.
Then there is the question of the fine per barrel, which depends on an assessment of the company's culpability: it could be up to $4,300, giving a total of around $15 billion, on which there would be no tax relief.BP intends to use its second-quarter figures, due on July 27th, to provide its own assessment of its liabilities, and to show that it can meet them.
He stresses the culpability of the Rwandan politicians who, to crush a Tutsi-led insurrection, imported tens of thousands of machetes and orchestrated the mass murder of Tutsis.
Besides looking into the question of culpability for the fire, Senator Danforth has said that he intends to "answer the dark questions" about all the other aspects of the tragedy at Waco.Conspiracy theorists are likely to be disappointed.
