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Message: [QUOTE="connie, post: 2349954, member: 7882"] Ok. The bottom line is that mediations abound. If by "own" you mean "acknowledge one's participation in a wider network of social relations that invariably redound upon others in the world", then I agree. If I click on a link that is sponsored by Urban Outfitters, I am "buying" my pleasure through the exploitation of labor in sweatshops. Similar when it comes to living in the U.S., paying taxes, enjoying the roads, and so on. No one is without some culpability. What the culpability is and what one can do about it . . . well, the burden of that question is something we all carry every minute of every day. When I say "not my war", I am not disowning personal culpability. It is my way of rhetorically flagging the problems in going "we" "we" "we" all the way home. I really must go now! [/QUOTE]