The White House has found a novel way to ensure Donald Trump’s nominees ascend to power.
Federal judges in the Western District of Washington swore in former King County Superior Court Judge Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney Wednesday morning. Within 54 minutes, Trump fired him.
The district’s 17 federal judges have been trying to find a replacement for Seattle’s First Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Floyd, after Trump failed to formally nominate him. Floyd was appointed in October, though his name was never officially advanced to the Senate for consideration.
Federal law grants a district’s judges the power to appoint a U.S. attorney if the president and the acting attorney general fail to do so within 120 days, subsequently stonewalling the procedural Senate hearings.
You’re doing critical self-examination unlike what some “America bad = all individual Americans bad” emotional onanists here do, and I appreciate that.
But further, there is no true moral defense for collective punishment, and all of that philosophical foundation applies to collective blame. For example, collective punishment violates both the Hague international legal principles and the Geneva Convention. It is contrary to Kantian ethics (and if you’re using utilitarianism to justify depriving people of individual moral agency, then we have nothing to discuss). There is plenty more food for thought here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment .
Blame people who support and act in support of Trump. But don’t blame people who oppose Trump and act in opposition to Trump. It’s pretty easy to understand, morally-sound logic.
“I am against world hunger.”
There, all of the world’s problems are solved.
Talk is cheap. Americans clearly haven’t done enough to address Trump and/or the causes of Trump, or we wouldn’t be here. Rigged prosecutors is just one symptom of that, and should be seen as a kick in the ass to do more.
What have you done? The point of my post was to remind you that there is no single American monolithic moral entity.
As an individual, you and an American have the same moral agency and duty to correct a wrong that you did not directly create. Likewise you share the same collective blame. So tell me, why haven’t you done more? If you think the question is absurd, you’ve just explained to yourself why it’s absurd to hold an individual American who hasn’t personally solved Trump to blame for Trump.
Again, some Americans do deserve blame. A lot of them in fact. Which ones? The ones who support and acted in support of Trump. It’s pretty simple actually. Moral reasoning doesn’t have to be hard, but you have to put in the effort rather than just say what makes you feel good and righteous.