You're conflating guilt and responsibility. An analogy: Suppose that at work, some critical system belonging to another team blows up, and everyone is asked to

You're conflating guilt and responsibility. An analogy: Suppose that at work, some critical system belonging to another team blows up, and everyone is asked to help fix it. It's not useful to complain that it's that other team's fault. The mess is there, and it needs to be fixed. Even though you don't share in the guilt for it blowing up, you're still responsible for fixing it.