 Moral luck (in all its forms) provides another perspective from which to see how blame might be inappropriate. Consider Gary Watson’s (1987) influential discussion of Robert Harris, who is at once an unequivocally cruel murderer and also, in a real sense, a victim of his tragic formative circumstances. It’s a legitimate question, given his history, whether Harris is even the sort of creature who is a sensible target of blame - that is, whether Harris is even a morally responsible agent in the first place - but even if we grant that he is, there’s another potential obstacle to blame at work here. Watson expresses it like this: