And so every executioner, and not the malfeasant lawyer, is responsible for the death of the wrongly executed? A better heuristic, and almost as simple, is to

And so every executioner, and not the malfeasant lawyer, is responsible for the death of the wrongly executed? A better heuristic, and almost as simple, is to rate responsibility in proportion to power, ie those with the most leverage to steer events take the most blame. Blame is information. It has no mass, and can be divided effortlessly.