After the entry of sin into the world, one of the first things that happened was evasion of personal responsibility. Adam blamed the woman for giving him the fruit (and blamed God for giving him the woman), and the woman turned around and blamed the serpent. Sin occurred, and excuses followed hard after. When we sin with a material object, or in near proximity to a material object, the most obvious thing to occur to us is to blame that material object. We blame weapons for murder, alcohol for drunkenness, slow traffic for the anger, photography for lust, and so on.
