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sanatanadharma

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13. In the USA, is the entire population of American held to equal blame for bad leadership actions?

Reply to skip fox (Original post)

Sat Oct 14, 2023, 12:35 PM

Oct 2023

Are all Americans equally guilty of the wrong wrought by the Nation's government?

I think we should all be able to make the wise and too-oft subtle distinctions between actions, results, blame, praise, responsibility, culpability, punishment, reward, revenge, retribution, rehabilitation, ...

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Is this analogy correct? All Proud Boys are Americans but not all Americans are Proud Boys when [View all] skip fox Oct 2023 OP

Well, there's Canadian proud boys but I get your point. Elessar Zappa Oct 2023 #1

Canada has designated them a domestic arthritisR_US Oct 2023 #8

No. nt LexVegas Oct 2023 #2

Not even close nt sarisataka Oct 2023 #3

No edhopper Oct 2023 #4

But didn't they usurp the Palestinian Authority by force and shame elections? skip fox Oct 2023 #6

it was sort of the other way around Voltaire2 Oct 2023 #10

Thanks for an intellignt answer, but hadn's Hamas skip fox Oct 2023 #12

well they certainly hated each other Voltaire2 Oct 2023 #15

No edhopper Oct 2023 #11

Not all Germans were Nazis. I don't hear that argument made often. LexVegas Oct 2023 #9

It broke down like this: As long as Hitler was alive all Germans were Nazis Chainfire Oct 2023 #14

Only if about 58% of Americans were Proud Boys. marybourg Oct 2023 #5

How about "All American Proud Boys are American but not all Americans are American Proud Boy"? skip fox Oct 2023 #7

In the USA, is the entire population of American held to equal blame for bad leadership actions? sanatanadharma Oct 2023 #13