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babelfish • yesterday at 8:44 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> whatever the human cost there was it was worth it to get Bin Laden. Actions have consequences

blaming the ~260M citizens for the actions of Pakistani government is repulsive.


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ericmay • yesterday at 8:52 PM

Blaming the 340 million citizens of the US for Trump’s actions is repulsive too, but plenty of people enjoy doing that on the Internet.

Sorry. People are responsible for the governments they have. Everyone is, or nobody is.

Those 260 million Pakistanis can educate themselves on vaccines and make informed decisions. Vaccine denial in the US? Same thing. You can’t say Americans are responsible for anti-vax sentiments, for example, and then say other people around the world aren’t.

Or are Americans smarter and better than everyone else and so they’re more responsible? I’ll happily take you admitting we’re the best if you want to go that route.

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