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the people committing the genocide in gaza... has anyone thought about them and their feelings today?!
A people as a whole cannot be responsible for a crime, because there will always be members who did not have a say in committing it (children at the very least, and realistically some adults will object too). Stopping the genocide is a good thing, holding the decision makers accountable and doing what can reasonably be done to prevent another is a good thing, but holding another in retribution for the first one would not be.
This is not true.
When a sufficiently large part of a society goes along with mass high crimes such as genocide it is reasonable to collectively blame the whole of society.
I can't speak for Israel, but if you look at say russia, a strong majority (at the very least) are openly committed to genocidal imperialism and an overwhelming majority (~84%) are openly supportive of imperialism.
People come up with lazy arguments such as "they are all afraid!!!", when preference falsification can be measured and it's not a good result for the russians. A small minority falsify their preferences with respect to open support for genocide, but when it comes to imperialism (e.g. annexation if Crimea) preference falsification is literally at 1% or so for a totally adjustment from 85% to 84%.
I honestly don't know much about Israeli public opinion research, but I wouldn't be surprised to find damning results.
No. If 85% of a group is guilty of something, then to say that whole group is guilty, would obviously be false, because 85 is simply not equal to 100. If I round up a group of 99 murders, and stick you in a room with them, that does not suddenly mean that you are a murderer because "the people in that room collectively are murders". Otherwise, literally everyone is, because I can simply define a group of people that includes mostly people that have committed horrible crimes, plus any given person, and now that person is a "murderer", and I can rinse and repeat until everyone has been so grouped.
... are you alright?
bringing much needed diversity of opinion to whatever this circle jerk is.
It reads like all you're contributing is a series of non-sequiturs.
The brain bin they're from must be admined by Abbey Normal.
I always took it to mean that the brain in question had been binned.