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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You join a group of friends who plan to rob a liquor store, knowing that someone might get hurt but not planning or wanting yourself to hurt anyone. The robbery goes off and the clerk gets killed. You didn't intend to hurt anyone, but it happened. You may not have wanted to murder anyone, but you are guilty of felony murder.
This is what we are talking about, except that about 1/5 (or 1/2, or 1/10, or 3/4 -- whatever) of the group is pretty inclined to kill someone if they get a chance, and no one in the group is particularly inclined to stop them. Under those circumstances, if you join that group, you have no business claiming later that you aren't a murderer because you didn't personally pull the trigger.
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Sure you do. Of all the loathsome laws the law 'n urder sorts love, the ones that hold the drivers of getaway cars or lookouts as guilty of murder as the robbers who actually kill people are uniquely indefensible.
Under your reasoning, if I live in State A and vote for a moderate R for senate, I'm nevertheless racist because other R senate candidates from other states are racist. Your reasoning approaches the Scottish rules on scotch: Even a drop of another malt into a bottle of single malt renders the entire bottle an adulterated blend.
Your reasoning would also hold that one may never vote R under any circumstance until the R party removes all racists from its ranks. By extension, as many Southern Ds support racist policies, one cannot vote D either, as he'd be supporting a party infected by racists.
This purity contest becomes theater of the absurd pretty quickly.
