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As long as it is not also an excuse to not undo the wrongs that often persist with such multi-generational catastrophic human problems. If I knew that everythi

• kimi 4y ago
  > If I knew that everything I have is built on genocide, I would feel pretty wrong. If I knew that everything I have is built on genocide is called human history. And I have a feeling that if the victims had been more lucky as to be the winners, they would have made more or less the same things.
  • aatd86 4y ago
    Well, it's not a question of "if I were the winner" , that's a pretty dumb argument (excuse my French). Reestablishing fairness would still be the same issue with simply the roles reversed. It's a question of being humane and restablishing fairness of opportunities amongst human beings. The status quo might be appealing but it can feed needless conflicts between people, sometimes on the sole basis of skin complexion. I understand that burying one's head in the sand can be appealing but that still shows a lack of accountability and a reluctance to improve Humanity imho.
• seti0Cha 4y ago
  > If I knew that everything I have is built on genocide, I would feel pretty wrong. Well, isn't it? Human history is a bloody affair from the first days of farming to today. History is a long series of wrongs. How shall we undo them?
  • anonymousDan 4y ago
    How about recognising wrongs as a first step?
    • seti0Cha 4y ago
      Which wrongs do you think we have yet to recognize? Maybe I'm being naive, but it seems to me that we (by which I mean modern American and European society) have taken a pretty thorough inventory in the last few decades, at least of our own failings.
      • jl6 4y ago
        It’s not enough to recognize wrongs. The aim is to extract a confession that will hold up in court, so your possessions can be redistributed fairly.
        • aatd86 4y ago
          Yup and to be more precise it's not even necessarily redistribution of possessions but fairness of opportunity. Possessions are depreciating assets. Even more when people don't know how to use them. That won't be a solution but more of a bandaid over the long term if the goal is to reach fairness (equality).
  • aatd86 4y ago
    So I assume that you don't think there are persisting systemic inequalities due to such things as slavery? When a country such as France helps installing the son of a former dictator at the helm of a country in 2022 (which leads to more than 200 people massacred, even on the premises of the US embassy since the regime is lawless) , I think there is a deep unaddressed issue, for instance.
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