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To: TobagoJack who wrote (8690)9/11/2001 7:00:59 PM
From: que seria  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Jay: Not sure if you mean to adopt the notion of collective
responsibility with this

I am terribly sad for this world, for what we all, without exception, are responsible for.

but given what I've read of your posts, I assume not. Our world may be the sum of individual contributions, but what non-dialectical view of history imputes the nastier additions to that sum back to all of us, even in the most diluted measure?

If you allude to US foreign policy, and Palestinian and Arab resentment of it, I disagree that US voters holding minority views have any real ability to affect, and thus any imaginable responsibility for, what their nation's officials do. The notion of collective responsibility leads (not to imply that you lead) to such rationalizations by the "devout" as the perpetrators must have used here.

I heard someone say the terrorists' rationale is that US taxpayers are ipso facto supporting Israel. The idea being that US money supports Israel inflicting terror on the innocent. I'm a bit of an Old Testament guy, but I do think retribution must be directed at the transgressor. It surely is a perversion of the Koran, and any rational sense of responsibility, to characterize people as transgressors because they must pay taxes.
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