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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?


You, as in the country.


I 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.


Read 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?


Yes. Democracy means we are culpable for what our leaders do.


That is a very expansive understanding of democracy that would, for example, imply that indiscriminately targeting civilians in a war is justifiable.


No, it doesn't.




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