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Can a country commit a crime?

• marcosdumay 11mo ago
  No, it's the government that commits it. People use the country = government metaphor as a shortcut for communication, but this one takes it further than usual.
  • blharr 11mo ago
    > country = government metaphor This will probably never be particularly useful, but this figure of speech is a "synecdoche" (a "metonymy" instead of a "metaphor")
    • brookst 11mo ago
      As long as we’re being pedantic, synecdoche means referring to part as the whole (nice wheels = car, nice threads = clothes). Saying the US did something when referring to the government is metonymy, but not synecdoche.
      • StackRanker3000 11mo ago
        A synecdoche can either be when you use a part to represent the whole, or conversely use the whole to represent a part I think it’s valid to consider the US government a part of the US. Thus, referring to the US government when saying that the US did something is a synecdoche
• largbae 11mo ago
  Extradition by tectonic subduction
  • deleted 11mo ago
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