Do you Think?

[Saltin]

Do you think a Government's people should be held accoutable for that government's actions?

 

[jbod]

Is this bait? I need more details.

 

[rival]

erm, in a way you already are, the world sees what the govt does, not the public...if your govt goes and does something stupid, you and your country get seen as stupid...

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

If the government officials are freely elected by the people, partially. Although it's not the people's fault for the official's eventual corruption.

Nik

 

[Czar]

definetly no.

 

[Saltin]

<< Do you? >>


I don't know, what do you think?

 

[jbod]

Ah, Czar, but it depends. If the people fully support the government, like a high percentage of them, and it does something terrible then yes the people are to blame as well.

But if say, a despotic thug ruling a tyrannical government acts on his own and without the best interests of the people in mind then no the people aren't to blame.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Possibly... it would depend on public knowledge, and if the public generally supported the government's action or passively ignored a wrong-doing, etc.

 

[Czar]

jbod,
very true, I was thinking about writing "generaly no, but it depends on the situation" but then I thought more about it and came to the conclusion of "definetly no". Reason is that "people" are generaly stupid in groups and will 99% of the time just go with the flow. My personal thought about all this is that a human person is the most intelectual living being on this planet but the crowd is a totaly different matter.
Most leaders who came to power and did "bad" things just abused this fact.