In passing judgement on others, we tend to assume the burden of our own conscience for everyone. But within the folds and furrows of each mind is a logic irreproducibly its own. Without understanding the logic of a particular mind, an admonition to thrift may serve as readily as an impetus to social pathology as stolid Ashcroftian citizenship. Had more inputs been diverted from the outset toward developing the cognitive infrastructure for caution and sensitivity, discretion and irony, better outputs might be expected but not assured. How exactly to plan within this complicated economy is a problem upon which many experts have lucidly commented, but which those who trade in cognition -- the whole of us -- have little studied. We condemn the predator and castigate the plagiarist when they are found out, but we must acknowledge that how much blame they themselves really bear in any of this is scarcely known.