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> holding those same people accountable for past state sins. Nobody wants any person to be accountable for past sins of any state. The idea is that the state

> holding those same people accountable for past state sins. Nobody wants any person to be accountable for past sins of any state. The idea is that the state itself be accountable, which is a very different thing.

BrandoElFollito 6y ago
By holding a state responsible, their citizens are automatically included. Having had family killed during WWII, I know that their contemporary relatives held a grunge against Germans. Not Germany as a state, but Germans. This is very much understandable because Germans (and not Germany) killed their family.
- enriquto 6y ago
  Precisely for that reason it is essential that states explicitly acknowledge and regret their past harmful actions. Thus, their current citizens do not get to bear that burden.
mbg721 6y ago
> Nobody wants any person to be accountable for past sins of any state. You'd be surprised.
- yesenadam 6y ago
  Could you give some specific counterexamples—teach us something—instead of that fairly unhelpful remark? Thanks.
  - mbg721 6y ago
    Apologies for the cheap snark; what I had in mind was the push for slavery reparations (and general hyper-racialized political climate) in the US.