 that it makes utterly no sense to cast judgments of praise and blame on people for things that are powerless to affect. We don't hold people blameworthy for things that are powerless to affect. As Thomas Reed said, that would be as true, as necessarily true, as any axon and Euclid. Yet from that simple proposition, we could draw many other things in our law. The point is, the ordinary man understands that right away.