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Speaker 0 discusses collective punishment as disgusting and expresses fear that the United States may be crossing a Rubicon, drifting toward a moral framework it may not recognize. The question is raised: are we adopting the ethics of the Israeli government?
Acknowledge that Israel is a very complicated topic with 9,000,000 people, not all of whom agree with this stuff. But the Israeli government has been moving ever more openly toward a policy where, “I don’t like the guy, but I’m also gonna kill his kids because they could grow up to be that guy.” This is described as the antithesis of Western civilization.
There is a distinction between East and West. Western civilization, Christian civilization rejects that approach. It is not just a piece of civilization but the foundation stone of civilization. This is why we don’t put families on trial for the crimes of the father, whereas other countries do. We never have, and we never can, because that’s the opposite of justice.
The most basic concept in the West is that God created each person as an individual, and as an individual, you’ll be judged for what you do, not for what your ancestors did or what children did. This “primacy of the individual” created by God and the existence of the individual soul form the basis of what used to be called human rights. Human rights apply to humans by virtue of the fact they’re human; the rights come from God because He made humans in His image.