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> 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 far
by 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 agoHow about recognising wrongs as a first step?
- seti0Cha 4y agoWhich 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 agoIt’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 agoYup 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 agoSo 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.