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> Kissinger was a war criminal so I tend to regard this kind of verbatim report as reflecting two criminally minded geniuses shooting the breeze together. Of c
by blast 3y ago
> Kissinger was a war criminal so I tend to regard this kind of verbatim report as reflecting two criminally minded geniuses shooting the breeze together.
Of course he was / they were. But guilt v. innocence is too crude a distinction to say anything meaningful about history. There's a lot going on that that distinction can't account for. In the end, they're all guilty, and we're all guilty, and only a childish craving to see oneself as innocent and project all badness onto others imagines otherwise.
p.s. This is not a criticism. I enjoyed your comment.
- skinnymuch 3y agoEveryone isn’t guilty to the same degree. Seeing guilt at different degrees doesn’t necessitate innocence. Casting blame evenly or vaguely isn’t good. There are many instances of guilty vs less guilty throughout history. The current world is built off of the colonizing of the Americas and the lessons and reactions from that. There’s no both sides to that. The west was and has always been wrong with imperialism. Kissinger doesn’t need to be white washed.
- shakil 3y agoExactly this. There's people responsible for not paying their parking tickets on time, and then there's folks such as Kissinger and Madeleine Albright that have the blood of hundreds of thousands of people on their hands. Lets not sweep it all under the same rug.
- panosfilianos 3y agoThe issue here is that, when you live in the same society, the effects of these killings tend to trickle down to benefits towards you. Not being able to see that the shoes we wear can be the product of child exploitation on the other side of the world is the problem, that allows people on the top to act the way they do.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoPlenty of people today are aware of things like clothing being made in unsavory conditions. Few can afford clothing themselves in the alternatives, however. Even in the grocery store, you have to pay sometimes double for free range eggs. Not everyone has the disposable income to pay extra for the morally conscious choice. We are limited to what the market makes available at our own price points, you never have much choice in the matter.