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If we hold the United States to account, then how far back should that go? Prior to the U.S. government, smallpox was aggressively dispersed in the Americas, r
by chasil 5y ago
If we hold the United States to account, then how far back should that go?
Prior to the U.S. government, smallpox was aggressively dispersed in the Americas, removing 90% of the native population.
Are we willing to indict Spain?
If not, why not? I am no more guilty than they.
(I have karma to burn, feel free.)
- PeterisP 5y agoThe only thing we can change to actually help people is not through indictment of past but by ensuring that abuses stop and abusers change behavior. It's good that some places have stopped it now. it's not good that some are still continuing to do so - and need to be stopped. Past abuses do not excuse or justify current ones, they are in an entirely different moral category that things which are happening now and can be changed (unlike tha past). The cases like the smallpox ones are condemnable and condemned, and we should not suffer anyone doing that now or in the future, no matter if it's USA or China or anyone else.
- chasil 5y agoWhat you have not understood is that the U.S. is the oldest functioning democracrcy. Our age implies intransigence. We're like your obnoxious uncle.