 T. M. Scanlon, on the other hand, takes blame to be an adjustment of attitudes in response to an impaired relationship, so the problem with hypocritical blame is that it distorts the facts. The adjustment of attitudes and expectations that constitutes blame purports to be a response to some way in which the blamed person has impaired their relationship with the blamer. But, as Scanlon says (2008: 177), “there is something false in [the hypocritical blamer’s] suggesting that it is [the blamee’s] unwillingness to act in ways that indicate untrustworthiness that impairs [their] moral relationship,” since the past attitudes and actions of the hypocritical blamer already impaired the relevant relationship. Thus, for Scanlon, we might say that the problem with hypocritical blame is that it is unfitting (or untrue to the facts).