Reply #15: But the US govt is *evil*...

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So's the Australian govt. While the Israeli and Australian govts are garden-variety *evil*, the US govt is the mega-arch-*evil*-villain and team leader of all the other members of the Club of *Evil*. The US govt makes all comic book villains look like small fry...

Does that mean that I'm calling US citizens evil people? Or doing the same for Australians or Israelis? Of course it doesn't. While there may be some level of collective sense of responsibility for what someone's govt does, I think it's really important to remember that each of those govts I mentioned are skilled at lying to their populations and sometimes carrying things out in their names that wasn't even mentioned in the small print when the govt was elected. Even if we were to believe that something like 52 or so percent of the US population were evil (me, I think most of them were just uninformed and stupid), what about that very large minority that didn't vote for the govt of *evil*?

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