A lodging facility in Kyoto has drawn a protest from the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo for asking an Israeli man to sign a pledge that he had never been involved in war crimes.

  • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    This honestly doesn’t make much sense. The implication would be that all citizens are culpable for their government’s actions once they start paying taxes.

    Funding your government isn’t a voluntary act, so your last parenthetical already invalidates most of what you said.