Anniversary

[Bradford DeLong]

>Count me in on this.
>
>No, let me rephrase it. The US deserved it. That doesn't mean the 
>persons, Americans and otherwise, who were the victims deserved 
>it....
>
>
>kj khoo

There seems to be a problem here. There is no "US" that (a) has a 
mind, (b) is a moral agent, and (c) can be said to "deserve" 
anything. To say "the US deserved it" is a backhanded way of saying 
that "the people who live in the United States and pledge it their 
allegiance deserve it."

I would call this fuzzy thinking, but that would be an insult to 
fuzzy thinkers everywhere...

Brad DeLong