makes perfect sense, since people of every age and culture get to choose the food and transportation available to them.

you should probably throw in people that ride buses/trains that aren’t filled to capacity.

“…That should handily dismiss any concerns about collective punishment…”

condemning two groups for collective punishment is not much of a solution to collective punishment, but I don’t see why you couldn’t bring it up with one of the eldritch gods and see what they think.