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Originally Posted by htperr6565
No i do not. However, you are exxagerating the extent to which the american people have control over their government, which believe me, is not absolute.
I place blame with the people who do the act in question. That is physically do, or use their power to issue orders to get it done.
Just because a people are caught up in the same ploitical boundary as these folks it does not follow that their complicity can be assumed to have existed. I did not get to design the american system of government, so therefore i will refuse to be held accountable for the system's actions. Only those who praise the system and support the decisions in question can be held collectively accountable for the decisions in question.
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Look, this is not something I expect you to agree with.
No matter what type of government I have, it is MY DUTY, to try to stop that government if I believe it is committing evil acts.
Of course, it then becomes a matter of what is acceptable. Where does each individual draw the line?
There were German people who helped the Allies.
If you had been around in the late 1700's, would you have sided with the Americans, or the Tories?
If you were a German soldier in the SS and asked to kill women and children, would you have done so?
If you were a German citizen and learned of the holocaust while it was going on, would you help the allies of you had the chance?
I do not expect answers, as these types of scenarios are almost impossible to answer. You had to be there. There are too many variables to be able to say for sure what I would do, as it should be for most people.
What should we allow, as a people, from our government, before we become complicit in their actions?
Obviously, everyone is different and each of us have to decide for ourselves exactly how responsible we are for our government's actions.