Behavior based on conditions from the discriminatory past is obviously abhorrent, but behavior ignoring that past is deemed equally culpable.
Somehow a captain who puts a side in and suffers is deemed more culpable than one who bats and sees his side obliterated, and Brendon McCullum must have brooded on this one as his bowlers had their ice-baths and soaked their weary feet.
"Because of these three things, the report deemed the pilots not culpable and, therefore, no disciplinary action was taken.
Nine of the companies, not including Accu-Tek, were found liable in three of the shootings -- the first time an American court deemed gun makers jointly culpable, on grounds of negligent marketing, for harm caused by illegally obtained guns they had manufactured.
Even today, long after the deaths of all three men, efforts are periodically made to reinstate Jackson (which would make him eligible for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame) and Weaver (deemed by some the least culpable of the eight).
It was largely unknown before 2013, but the financial services ombudsman has had more than 200 complaints since then, possibly because banks are taking a harder line on reimbursement if the victim is deemed to be in some way culpable.
He was born into a suspicious racial and gender group deemed dangerous through media and other historicized constructions of who is culpable, scary, and up to no good.
Perhaps, says Hezekiah the son of Rabbi Hiyya, the connection of the verse from Numbers with the verse from Psalms indicates the heavenly and the abysmal fates, respectively, of those who are deemed just, on the one hand, and those who are judged culpable, on the other.
But when the written law itself fails to give us a clear framework that allows juries to apply capital punishment to cases they deem the most morally culpable, we have a problem.
First, it has proved impossible to draft and keep up-to-date a criminal code that unambiguously encompasses all conduct intended to be deemed criminal; there are technical offenses or offenses that public opinion no longer regards as culpable.
