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I’m a bully for how someone I don’t know treated someone else I don’t know, because he happens to be the head of state of the country I live in?
by School-Cotton 2y ago
I’m a bully for how someone I don’t know treated someone else I don’t know, because he happens to be the head of state of the country I live in?
- j_maffe 2y agoYou, as in the country.
- School-Cotton 2y agoI am not a country. Nor are countries sentient beings with intentions; they are abstract entities. “We” didn’t bully anyone — one or two specific people did.
- mrguyorama 2y agoYes. Democracy means we are culpable for what our leaders do.
- School-Cotton 2y agoThat is a very expansive understanding of democracy that would, for example, imply that indiscriminately targeting civilians in a war is justifiable.
- usernomdeguerre 2y agoNo, it doesn't.
- i_love_retros 2y agoRead the parent comment. > Must we endlessly fund a war that is in stalemate and will continue to savagely end the lives of military and civilian alike? Otherwise, we are a bully?