We are not indifferent creators, we have a duty of care and even when, with the best of intentions, you go astray, as many of us have, you have the responsibility to course correct.
So it's the same premise as bounded rationality, that we have a human mind that is bounded in some sort of way and relying on shortcuts, and that those shortcuts can sometimes lead us astray.
In her first public comments since her arrest, Huffman said, My daughter knew absolutely nothing about my actions, and in my misguided and profoundly wrong way, I have betrayed her.
And the human cost of the economic crisis is paid largely by those who are out of work, for joblessness increases depression, divorce, substance abuse and pretty much everything that can go wrong in a life.
And I'm not saying this is easy, and I'm sure many of you have made the wrong moves too about who you wanted to connect with, but what I want to suggest is, this is an opportunity.
They can be very powerful and bring people to a side, but appeals to pathos can also lead readers astray, letting their emotions take them away from their actual goals or values.
Kenneth Geers of NATO's cyberwar centre in Estonia says the hacking boom makes it easier for cyber-spies to pass off their work as the handiwork of a misguided rebellious teenager.
And so they persisted with the traditional five-kingdom division, an arrangement that Woese called not very useful in his milder moments and positively misleading much of the rest of the time.
I saw myself, too, from the dramatic standpoint, and I was pleased with my role of the trusted friend bringing back the errant husband to his forgiving wife.