The fault is very specific feeling, describing relation of a human to his own history. The assumption laying at the origin of a guilt is, another possible past could exist, a better one. As it became convenient taxonomy concept, the continuum reason-action-result was broken.
Penal codes are not treating about reasons of misdemeanour, but guilt. Religions about commiting sin, and not its origin. Teacher in the school, after a pane is broken, asks always "who did it" and not "why did it happen". And, unfortunately, parents, who catched out their son is smoking, think about penalty and not about what they missed.
The result is, if something goes wrong, humans feel guilty, even if objectively the problem is somewhere else. A human who did something wrong is expecting a penalty, and catharsis as a result at the end of day. Nothing happens, so feeling guilty remains only a destructive state of mind. Doesn't matter, if the reason of feeling guilty is real or abstract, either there's an excuse or not. Finally, a human who continuously feels guilty falls into his own trap of waiting for being punished and fears that it will never happen.
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