Word: blameless
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...unborn, should never be discriminated against for the sins or misfortunes of his parents. For example, a fetus should not be punished by murder because his father was a rapist or his mother was pregnant out of wedlock. The fetus, and by extension the infant, is always considered innocent, blameless and deserving of protection...
...recently, and certainly during the fifties, it was easier to sympathize with the Belfrages. There was a civil war going on then, and for some men, including Belfrage, it took courage to speak out. It was easy to agree, during the fifties, that while the "heretics" might not be blameless, their punishments far outweighed their crimes. Certainly, their inquisitors represented a reactionary force, while the "heretics," for the most part, advocated social reform and perhaps social revolution. What's more, innocent bystanders suffered--because McCarthy, McCarran and their cohorts, especially on the local level, rarely exercised a surgeon's care...
...recently, and certainly during the fifties, it was easier to sympathize with the Belfrages. There was a civil war going on then, and for some men, including Belfrage, it took courage to speak out. It was easy to agree, during the Fifties, that while the "heretics" might not be blameless, their punishments far outweighed their crimes. Certainly, their inquisitors represented a reactionary force, while the "heretics," for the most part, advocated social reform and perhaps social revolution. What's more, many innocent people suffered--because McCarthy, McCarran and their cohorts, especially on the local level, rarely exercised a surgeon...
...officials. Accountability has meaning only if those whom we reward or punish for their behavior have indeed had some control or potential for control over the events by which we evaluate them. How futile and self-deceiving it is to "throw the rascals out," if the "rascals" are as blameless and without authority...
...court found that Telex was far from blameless in its own business practices. In a countersuit, IBM was awarded $21.9 million for losses suffered in the theft of computer secrets by Telex, which was forbidden for the next two years to hire ex-IBM employees without court approval. Yet IBM, whose mighty stock shot down 38% points to 259½ in the two trading days following the decision's announcement, had experienced a rare defeat that might grow even more serious in months to come...