Aid workers who speak out against in such circumstances risk losing their neutrality, but staying silent could lead to moral culpability.
One of these critics is Anadarko, which had a 25% stake in the Macondo well; it and the other junior partner, Mitsui Oil Exploration, have not stumped up for what BP sees as their share of the costs to date, and this will doubtless lead to further legal action that will turn on BP's culpability.
But anonymity can also lead to online abuse, as posters emboldened by the lack of culpability can attack others with dissenting opinions, make threats, harass, and otherwise disrupt more productive conversations.
Mr. Owen conceded that trying to continue the inquest without addressing possible Russian state culpability and the actions of British security officials would lead to an "incomplete, inadequate and potentially misleading" inquiry.
It "shows a level of culpability and contrition by the district that is appropriate, and the hope for all of us is that it will lead to reforms so this doesn't happen to another child in Los Angeles".
He said that it showed "a level of culpability and contrition by the district that is appropriate, and the hope for all of us is that it will lead to reforms so this doesn't happen to another child in Los Angeles".
By establishing accountability, we can move on to culpability.
That is the kind of indirect culpability that led to the conviction last month of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, in the UN-backed special court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.
Its principal tactic was to shift culpability to UCIL, stating the plant was wholly built and operated by the Indian subsidiary.
The search led to economists, who pointed to Mr. Hirschman, who denied culpability, sort of.
