> Do you dislike people from entire countries because of things their governments did too?

You can’t choose where you’re born, you can choose who you work for.

I’m open to the concept of there being some scale of culpability where the janitors at Meta contracted from some third party company are less culpable than the c suite. But as a software engineer who has chosen to work there, you’re the one building the planet destroying death laser, so not only are you in a very privileged, specialized position, you’re directly contributing to the effects.

Also Meta isn’t a nation state.

> Do you dislike people from entire countries because of things their governments did too?

When their governments are democratically elected, sometimes, ya. I don't want to give you any spoilers, but there's maybe a reason the average American is looked at least favourably as of late.

There are also cultural beefs that have existed for longer than I've been alive that are not even all that rational, but continue to persist. Whole cultures hating each other.

> Do you seriously blame the death star technicians? The cooks at the death star canteen?

I think someone from Aldereen might have a hard time grabbing a beer with a death star technician. Most people probably understand that blame is not equally shared, but that those technicians were on the wrong side of history. Exceptions might include people forcefully enslaved to work on the death star - and, from a distance, an external observer still would not know the difference at first glance between forceful participation, passive participation, and active participation.

It often takes time/generations to heal from the pain of their parents choices - whether those choices were active or passive. Sins of the father and all that (though I think it's unfair to put parental misdeeds onto their kids, it also historically happens a lot).

You are equating countries with corporations now?

How does that even remotely make sense?

"I chose to work as a developer for this supranational corporation, but nothing bad this corporation does is any reflection on me personally, I only work there, making sure this supranational corporation keeps existing through my work. It's also the same thing as being born in a country."

My great grandfather worked at the V-2 rocket factory near Nordhausen during WW2. This factory used slave labour from the nearby Dora concentration camp to build the rockets.

While he wasn’t SS, and he never pushed anyone into a gas chamber, he did plenty to enable Nazi atrocities during his time there.

> Do you seriously blame the death star technicians? The cooks at the death star canteen? I find that extremely hard to understand.

You must be working very hard to not understand that, as it's very simple. They signed up for a job on a thing called the Death Star. Its only job is to commit genocide at a planetary scale.

They are morally responsible for the consequences of their choices. We all are. Getting paid doesn't negate that. If anything, it amplifies it.