Some very strong and clear truths on facts and reality presented by Mr. Morris. However, I’m not so sure that the relationship between such facts and guilt is as clear and simple as Mr. Morris would like to believe. It seems that to ultimately judge a human by a particular set of facts centered around a particular action is only a partial investigation of the truth. I’m not disagreeing with the concept of breaking a social contract, breaking laws in short, but an investigation that stops once enough facts and evidence have been gathered to determine whether a person did or did not carry out an action conveniently neglects to continue investigating the totality of facts and evidence that led to said action. This “history as needed” form of justice raises questions about the human ritual of persecuting a scapegoat as an act of vengeance, or perhaps more interesting, as a cathartic action to forego confronting a deeper truth. Some interesting writing that gets at this scapegoat phenomenon: “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson.