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Originally Posted by htperr6565
How come this is not reflected in the legal system? If i go murder someone, do they arrest everyone in my house, who was providing me with a place to live and eat? Usually only the one who commits the crime is found guilty.
I do like your enthusiasm and idealism, its just hard to buy into your collective guilt argument.
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That is a horrible analogy.
If you murder someone? You are not the same as a government, made of of citizens, with a military, made up of citizens, who get their funding, from citizens.
It's not about guilt, it is about responsibility.
If the German people would have refused to fight for Hitler, there never would have been a WWII, or a holocaust.
All they had to do is say NO, I will not fight for you. Sure, many would have been killed, but how many Germans died during WWII anyways?
If the people share no responsibility, then a government can do anything it wants and the people are blameless?
Believe me, I do see your point. In places like Saudi Arabia, where there are no civil rights, no freedom of speech, or the press, it would be very difficult to do anything to try to change the government. In tyrannical regimes, I place LESS blame on the people, but there is still blame. In a country like America, where we do have freedom of speech and alleged freedom of the press, we have more responsibility.
Do you really believe that the people of the USA are totally blameless for the actions of our government?