"Our duty is to verify if there was also responsibility, human culpability".
He is convinced that the climate is changing (though he has been more equivocal about the degree of human culpability).
Assigning human culpability to the status of a duty to humans not involved is problematic, so it cannot obligate us to clone mammoths.
Over the past several years, the panel of climate scientists gained confidence in human culpability for the past century's warming--by 0.6°C--through a process of elimination.
That's a faulty logic and a tricky diversion from our human culpability for our water crisis.
It is a natural impulse to assign blame, and sometimes there is human culpability, but on many occasions, the old description of "acts of God" is applicable, although it is not clear why God would act in such an unjust and precipitous manner taking the lives of innocent individuals and wreaking havoc on their families.
Beautiful UXD on this quiz and interactive feature, which projects individual consumer culpability in human slavery, or "trafficked" labor.
An accurate understanding of the magnitude and dynamics of casualties during a conflict is important for a variety of reasons, including historical memory, retrospective policy analysis, and assigning culpability for human rights violations.
My guess is, that thing is the innate human abhorrence of acknowledging culpability.
Frey is a poor lawyer for himself; all the arguments I'd made to myself about the inadequacy of fiction vs. nonfiction as categories, the unreliability of all human narration, and the culpability of his publisher and book publishing under capitalism sounded instantly anemic and petulant in his own words.
In the course of efforts to assign culpability for large-scale human suffering, the walls of sovereign immunity began to be breached.
