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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?

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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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