User blog comment:Crosaffcheg/Barry screwed up again/@comment-3221148-20170130165939

Even if he could have stopped Thawne at that time (and he couldn't), Barry has neither the powers of precognition (to predict what Thawne would have done), nor the will to assist him with the crimes. Claiming he was somehow "responsible" for somebody else's crimes is bogus.

That's as bad as those folks claiming that Batman is responsible for all deaths by not killing the Joker, despite the fact that the government (or even a rogue element in the bureaucratic machine, or how about a structural element in organized crime) doesn't seem to care about executing him for federal offenses.