The remoteness doctrine has at times been analyzed in terms of proximate cause. In that vein, in Evan F. v. Hughson United Methodist Church (1992) 8 Cal. App. 4th 828, 835, 10 Cal. Rptr. 2d 748, the appellate court observed: '"Proximate cause" -- in itself an unfortunate term -- is merely the limitation which the courts have placed upon the actor's responsibility for the consequences of the actor's conduct. In a philosophical sense, the consequences of an act go forward to eternity, and the causes of an event go back to the dawn of human events, and beyond. But any attempt to impose responsibility upon such a basis would result in infinite liability for all wrongful acts, and would "set society on edge and fill the courts with endless litigation." As a practical matter, legal responsibility must be limited to those causes which are so closely connected with the result and of such significance that the law is justified in imposing liability. Some boundary must be set to liability for the consequences of any act, upon the basis of some social idea of justice or policy.'" ( Id. at p. 835.)