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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous]My point is that all of us are responsible for our country's current direction, and the people who point to the "other" - whether it is another generation, another race or ethnicity, or another income level - are the problem.[/quote]
I said nothing of the kind. I just said that they suck(ed) on the whole. I could say that the Huns sucked; that wouldn't be blaming all of our current problems on them.

Now that you've finally made your point, though, it's ridiculous to say that each of us is equally responsible. There are huge disparities in both power and correctness. Are you as responsible as W? How about the homeless schizophrenic on the street - is he equally responsible?

Apply that idea to other places and times and see how absurd it is. Blacks in 1840 shared equal responsibility for slavery, the people of North Korea all share equal responsibility for their situation...

I hope you won't stand by that statement. It reminds me of the lazy moral and intellectual cop-out parts of the media practice all the time.

[quote=Anonymous]In that way, you are no different from a guy who complains about government welfare (either poor or retirees) but readily takes his household mortgage deduction and does not acknowledge that he is the beneficiary of the same welfare policies that he decries.  And who probably has a sizable 401(k) and 529 that grow tax-free.[/quote]
Ridiculous again. The fact that some judgments are hypocritical doesn't make all judgments invalid.

When I look at the problem of rape in this country, I primarily blame the rapists. Now tell me that I'm a hypocrite, and that I'm the real problem with the rape situation b/c I'm one of those who points a finger at "the other."

[quote=Anonymous]But this idea that some other generation screwed up the country, when in fact our entire modern history is one big blame-sharing exercise, is I think beneath you as a poster.[/quote]
I appreciate your general review. I wouldn't say that, [b]and I didn't.[/b] This is now the third time that I've specifically stated that our generation has been foolish while theirs was self-centered, and I draw a moral distinction there. I never said which has done more harm. For multiple posts now you've ignored that clear statement of mine and pretended that I was saying that we've been perfect and they ruined everything.[/quote]

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