If you suppress the idea of personhood then you suppress the notion of individual culpability.
Once behavior for a race is determined, an individual is guilty or responsible for that sort of behavior, regardless of individual culpability.
And it may overstate individual culpability, given the constraints under which the peacekeepers were obliged to operate.
We're delighted to announce that Wendell Steavenson will be joining us later this month to talk about her book, the difficulty of reporting on Iraq, and the question of individual culpability in government-sponsored crimes.
Pressed during the hearings, Mr. Fine acknowledged that his investigation had not sought to establish individual culpability.
A similar view has it that individual moral culpability lies in individual character.
Any individual or collective culpability had been shouldered entirely by the commander, Duke Atreides.
"It would be up to the forensic redactors to determine individual culpability," Elizabeth said.
Few results were obtained from the investigation because individual culpability was diluted in the mass of information.
The board was not, however, called upon to assess individual culpability or be the final arbiter of the facts.