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More on collective responsibility
Thos.P.Jackstraw Updated: 2004-05-24 09:24
Ultimately, we are all responsible, as a group, for ourselves and our interactions with others and our environment. The balance of things will bear this out in the long run. If we fail to take care, then we will suffer the consequences of not attending to our own loose behavior.
To pick out a people, say the Germans, and force them to pay reparations, even after they have been tortured, humiliated and demeaned; and even still to then force them to say wonderful things about certain folks and to not say anything else least they shall suffer the direst of consequences, is hardly appropriate. It is typical of the human spirit to want to share its suffering among everyone, I think. It is also typical to take advantage of a potential contender, when crippled and bleeding -- someone will surely steal the man's wallet as he lies bleeding and damaged on the street in front of the crowd. This seems to be the way of things, not necessarily the way things ought to be.
I should point out the States that rebelled in the American Civil War made reparations to the US government for many long years after wards. After the fall of the CSA, the carpetbaggers came and ripped the land from the poor, wounded and dead people of the South. It may not be right, but it is what is.
To hold the American people responsible for their government, is to suggest that they are negligent in enacting some controlling mechanism? What is that? How do we do it? If Bush was LBJ, then we only need to brainwash the few journalists from the NY Times and The Washington Post, who really got his dander! LBJ listened to them before he would listen to his heart. Can we force our leaders to listen to their hearts first? I don't think so, it is not part of the Great Plan!
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