[extempore]

It’s interesting how smoothly this logic can move between “your country”, “your religion”, “your ethnicity”, “your ideology”. I am not making a case for or against any of these. But if pragmatic arguments for group punishment hold currency when there is known collateral damage, arguments from principle lose currency in equal measure.

[tekknik]

aren’t all laws a form of group punishment? the area i live in now charges for plastic bags due to littering. i’ve never littered in my life yet i’m still subject to the same punishment. the same holds true for just about every law, except capital crimes.