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Maybe you're culpable, but not me. I've never voted for any politician that voted for the Iraq war, and I wasn't around for Vietnam.

I advocate for the peaceful dissolution of the federal government because I believe it's unfixable and unaccountable.

I believe the de-facto two-party system is illegitimate.

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Right, but culpability is like a spectrum. If I actually did it, I'm obviously the villain. But if I prosper from its effects while only opposing it in the abstract, then it's not obvious to me that I've actually reasonably washed my hands of it.

It happened whether you "prospered" from it or not. How does that alone make you any more culpable? You could argue a baby born today might have indirectly benefited from it. Is that baby culpable to any extent?

Today's kids have a big responsibility in front of them. It won't be easy to speak truth to the power that lies in the governments of the USA and China and elsewhere, but it's absolutely obvious that these entities don't intend to serve the interests of these children or their parents.

It is today's kids who must grow up ready to live in the absence of a powerful state. Even if they aren't culpable, they are responsible.

And we as adults have the responsibility of educating those future generations by speaking that truth to power. I try to do my part, FWIW.

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