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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: average joe who wrote (31957)10/11/2001 3:36:29 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
They were collectively guilty as a nation.

I believe responsibility, and guilt are individual things. Those that support the evil actions of an organization or country have their share of personal responsibility. On a purely practical level we can't treat a hostile nation or organization as a collection of separate individuals. The driving force behind Nazi Germany or Al-Qaida is one that will support evil actions. And to stop them we have to destroy or at least to great damage to these organizations. We have no bombs that can figure out the individual feelings of people in the target area or avoid people who oppose the evil. We have to fight all of Al-Qaida and the Taliban and before we had to fight Nazi Germany not just Hitler and his cronies and loyal Nazis. But the fact that we had to oppose the whole country or organization does not mean that every person in the country or any person who ever had any association with the organization is responsible for the evil that it does.

Tim
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