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Pastimes : Slavery Reparations
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To: Joseph Waligore who wrote (25)8/21/2002 7:38:14 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (2) of 203
 
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Karma has no legal standing. And applied across generations, it is anything but moral.

Shall present day Italians and Jews be held responsible for the death of Christ? Or of Spartacus?
Shall Catholics be held responsible for the atrocities of the Inquisition?

If I rape you, it is ungracious if I meet you ten years later and say let's forget the past and not live in the past.
You are talking about the relationship between the person who actually himself committed the crime and the victim who actually herself had to endure it.
This is distinctly different from reparations.

Shall the great great grandson of the perpetrator be executed for that rape? That's the analogy that applies to reparations. Is that your definition of justice?

It's my definition of injustice.
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