How is this relevant except to subtly blame the victim?
If companies fail to stay relevant, they can only blame themselves.
I don't really think that fault or blame are really relevant, it's just the way it was.
For Scanlon, therefore, moral blame is especially relevant because it signifies a disturbance of this basic relationship (Scanlon 2008, critical Wallace 2012).
Structured literature searches were conducted on various search engines (e.g., PubMed, Sociofile, Google Scholar) which enabled defining dimensions of stigma both conceptually sound and relevant to practice: responsibility and blame, confidentiality of serological status, HIV criminalization, PLWHA coercion, PLWHA rights, negative feelings towards PLWHA [ 35– 38, 41– 48, 53].
That "victim blaming" is as relevant today as it was then (and for centuries before) speaks volumes about our psychological and social tendency to displace responsibility onto victims instead of perpetrators.
The fiasco over the appointment of Rod Lynch as Scotland's new tourist supremo has found them in a mode that is becoming all too familiar - fixing blame firmly on the relevant quango.
Rather, according to Scanlon, the past attitudes and actions of the hypocritical blamer already impaired the relevant relationship.
This, in turn, makes the relevant beliefs to be appropriate objects of blame and praise.
The recently exposed sugar scam (in which industry-sponsored research distracted from the health hazards of sucrose for decades, blaming cholesterol instead) is one relevant example.
