You understand by this reductionist logic you are responsible for the sins of the entire world. By being born your actions triggered through your existence all terrible things that have happened since.

I can’t believe you’d be this dumb. This is well trodden moral philosophy bullshit.

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mothballed a day ago | parent [-]

I can't believe you'd be as dumb as to compare being born to blowing up a bunch of people, leading to hundreds of thousands of excess deaths[] (mostly of civilians), many of which who now with their livelihoods and homes blown up and radicalized against the west, then were easy fodder to join any jihadist with a dollar and a plan with newly equipped with captured M16/M4s and Humvees and freshly freed up territory.

And apparently, it's wrong to just question if the USA might have culpability for the aftermath of that.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

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throwawayq3423 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> And apparently, it's wrong to just question if the USA might have culpability for the aftermath of that.

No, but that's a fundamentally different question than answering who was actually fighting and who actually carried out the killings.

A very simple distinction if you care to make it. You don't.

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mothballed 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You guys are perfectly tag-teaming your gibberish responses. It's cute.

I said no such thing, I've never claimed the USA carried out the killings of ISIS.

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throwawayq3423 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> I said no such thing, I've never claimed the USA carried out the killings of ISIS.

> US killed far more in Iraq, so might be unrelated.

Of course the United States is to blame for the Civil War, but it did not carry out the killings. If you think that's only a rhetorical difference, I don't know what to tell you.

	▲	mothballed 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I have no idea who you're even arguing against at this point, but it's clearly not me, and in any case I'm a bit tired of playing the tag-team game where both of you alternate so one can't be held responsible for the last comment of the other while still pivoting on it. Carry on.