If you're cutting all the fluff, it's a lifeform-eat-lifeform world, so no one is truly 'innocent'. That said, degrees of collaboration with morally questionable entities yield different levels of guilt. Owning Boeing stock or paying to fly on a Boeing airplane would be full complicity. Same as paying US income taxes to slaughter women and children in Gaza or Ukraine makes one complicit with murder and genocide.
Hand-wringing after the fact shows contrition if it's genuine, but it isn't absolution. Particularly so if the original support or collaboration continues.
(An extension of this argument would indict every participant in modern jewish society, but that's for another day.)
Sector2 0 points 3 months ago
"everyone that breathes"
If you're cutting all the fluff, it's a lifeform-eat-lifeform world, so no one is truly 'innocent'. That said, degrees of collaboration with morally questionable entities yield different levels of guilt. Owning Boeing stock or paying to fly on a Boeing airplane would be full complicity. Same as paying US income taxes to slaughter women and children in Gaza or Ukraine makes one complicit with murder and genocide.
Hand-wringing after the fact shows contrition if it's genuine, but it isn't absolution. Particularly so if the original support or collaboration continues.
(An extension of this argument would indict every participant in modern jewish society, but that's for another day.)