To hold criminals responsible for their crimes involves a failure to recognize that criminal actions, like all actions, are ultimately products of the environment that forged the agent' s character. It is not criminals but people in the law-abiding majority who by their actions do most to create and maintain this environment. Ttherefore, it is law-abiding people whose actions, and nothing else, make them alone truly responsible for crime. The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that ['the way it distinguishes criminal from crimes implicitly denies that someone becomes a criminal solely in virtue of having committed a crime', 'it exploits an ambiguity in the term "environment"by treating two different meanings of the word as though they were equivalent', 'it fails to distinguish between actions that are socially acceptable and actions that are socially unacceptable', 'its conclusion contradicts an implicit principle on which an earlier part of the argument is based']