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we've done an okay job of correcting some historical mistakes I don't want to take anything from the generally commendable and impressive German efforts in tha
by pvg 5y ago
we've done an okay job of correcting some historical mistakes
I don't want to take anything from the generally commendable and impressive German efforts in that regard, as you say, over a period of several generations. At the same time, one has to acknowledge to get there, Germany was physically destroyed, its territory dismembered and occupied, it effectively ceased to exist as a sovereign state for a period, etc, etc. It's not much of an example of a group spontaneously deciding they'd got it wrong.
- _carbyau_ 5y agoInterestingly though, a trip through germany revealed monuments to the atrocities they committed. The general idea being that future peoples need to learn from the mistakes of the past.
- HanaShiratori 5y agoWhy would anyone, especially a large group spontaneously change one of their core beliefs? Don't you need some kind of trigger event to enforce the change of mind?
- pvg 5y agoPeople have been wondering since that time a Wookiee lived on Endor.
- HanaShiratori 5y agoSorry what? I guess I don't get what you're saying
- pvg 5y agoI didn't get what you were asking either!
- HanaShiratori 5y agoOh OK sorry I'm not a native English speaker so I might not chose the right words. I was asking who spontaneously changes their mind without any event that would trigger such a change? If I believe in something, why would I have any motivation to change it if everything is running well / as planned?
- pvg 5y agoOh it's mostly a figure of speech - the point was that Germans 'changing their mind' was not anything close to 'spontaneous' despite the fact most of it was, over the long term, arduously accomplished by Germans themselves.
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- posix86 5y agoYes, but in the case of Germany, it wasn't the case that the German government and societal structures changed their beliefs; they were replaced.