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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Thanks, and I will also add that, again, I have no issue at all with the call for more condemnation of these acts from moderate Muslims and prominent Islamic figures. ...
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After thinking it through and talking with my roommate over waffles about it this morning, I've realized that I was wrong.
What my feeling was was that all members of a community bear some responsibility for the actions of all members of that community - and I was defining community as any group a person chooses to identify with.
I did not think of this as divisive, but rather inclusive, as carried to its furthest extent it makes all people, at least peripherally, responsible for the actions of all people. I realized, however, that it leads straight to generalization which IS divisive. (You are an X so you need to act in Y manner in this situation, regardless of what else you might be).
I also realized that what I was doing was making altruism a responsibility. I was
demanding all people try to act altruistically in all situations and I realized this was not a reasonable thing to demand.
I
wish people acted as altruistically as reasonably possible in all situations, but it is not logical to require them to do so.