Because even though culpable acts are almost always individual acts, blame is often shared widely.
When an individual's ethnicity, nationality, religion, beliefs or gender differs from their victim it seems inevitable that -- just as our laudable acts sometimes reflect positively on others who look, dress or act like us in other ways -- those culpable acts reflect negatively on others as well.
Prospero looks out at us and acknowledges that we too can be weak, cruel, culpable, whether in act – as Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian have been – or in "things not done but meant", as Cleon and his wife are in Pericles.
That is to say, individuals are less culpable when they act in ignorance of the disvalue of their crime.
The satirization of Palin is nothing for which anyone need be culpable, rather such acts are a responsible method to conduct truth.
Should Loughner turn out to be psychotic and brain-diseased, as appears to be the case, he will be no more genuinely culpable for the acts he has committed -- regardless of what the law says -- than a person who had his first seizure while driving through a crowded Tucson intersection.
This objection fails because, as Aristotle [ 19] noted, people are responsible when their intended acts, culpable ignorance, or inaction causes harm.
And still not one of those culpable for this global act of vandalism.
Considering the colossal importance of this trial's testimony and proceedings in persuading the world that at least one, unequivocally good and just thing came out of the invasion, the folly of allowing both to be disrupted and eclipsed by Saddam is coming to seem yet another act of culpable idiocy, up there with not having an exit strategy.
