  It is in part because of these sorts of worries that Schechtman  suggests abandoning the search for identity in the reidentification  sense in favor of identity in the characterization sense. What we're  looking for, after all, is an account of what makes some past action  my own. But looking for an answer to this question via something like the Psychological Criterion is too indirect: it has us attributing  the action to some past person first and then trying to determine  whether or not the person to be assessed as responsible is one and  the same as that past agent. But if the action cannot be attributed  to the allegedly responsible person directly, the relation  between the two person-slices just isn't strong enough to warrant  responses like punishment and blame (Schechtman 1996, 90–91; 2005,  13).