 A late blooming of this Legal Realist conclusion was the well-known work of Wex Malone (1956). Malone largely focused on an issue that preoccupied philosophers of causation in the 1950s: the pragmatic features by which we pick out “the cause” of some event (Feinberg 1970: 143–147). Malone found, unsurprisingly, only context-specific, practical interests guiding such locutions of causal emphasis, and skeptically concluded that that was all there was to causation itself. To be said to be “the cause” of some harm was just another way of saying one was responsible for the harm.