The dealer had some degree of culpability, it can be argued, just as a tavern owner bears responsibility when he lets a patron get blind drunk who then kills someone while driving home.
For example, some accidents may be caused by a combination of factors (e.g. port environment, human risk perception and safety culture, facilities failure, etc)., and ascertaining culpability and cause can be very difficult, or even impossible [11].
In a tearful interview with the Guardian, Litvinenko said she and her son risked losing their home and any source of income if she failed in her attempt to force a public inquiry into the 2006 killing – the only mechanism by which evidence of the Russian state's culpability can legally be considered.
In contemporary corporations, the decision-making process is so diffuse that it can be difficult to establish criminal culpability beyond a reasonable doubt.
Perhaps in the case of the vice president's controversial energy policy meetings, an argument can be made that no possible culpability had accrued.
That any White or Non-Black culpability in the violence that is visited upon our lives can be explained away simply by claiming that one is afraid.
Criminal law doctrine is, to say the least, suspicious of such a separation between intent and culpability, especially when it comes to very serious offenses (lesser offenses can be established by proving the defendant was reckless or indifferent).
There was plenty of culpability to go around in this failure, but much of it can be laid at the door of fossil fuel companies and electric utilities that oppose any emissions regulation at all.
Clearly, the consequences of one person's uncooperativeness can be made so grave, and his malevolence and culpability so transparent, as to stir even a self-hating moral relativist from his dogmatic slumbers.
