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I've heard some Brits complain about American misdeeds throughout the Middle East without a hint hypocrisy crossing their face.
by travmatt 9y ago
I've heard some Brits complain about American misdeeds throughout the Middle East without a hint hypocrisy crossing their face.
- rhaps0dy 9y agoRight, but that's happening _now_ so we (well, the people who are doing it) have the power to prevent it.
- Balero 9y agoThese are individual people. If the British government was to complain, then that could be considered hypocritical. But an individual person can't be held to account for actions taken, by others and (quite probably) before they were born.
- srean 9y agoWhat if they are still benefiting from those historical acts ?
- TallGuyShort 9y agoName a country where you can live without unknowingly benefiting from some atrocity in the past.
- gertef 9y agoNot the point. Whoever you are, if you have ill-gotten gains (more than average at least), even as a gift, you have a moral obligation to use them to counter the ill.
- GauntletWizard 9y agoThere's a scene in the first episode of Sherlock where it's pointed out that Dr. Watson is a "British doctor injured in the war in Afghanistan" - I laughed. Apparently I was the only one in my circle of friends who got that that was the original character's biography, written in 1887!