Rewinding history is somewhere among ridiculous, impossible, absurd, a waste of time, criminal, thieving, hopeless.
In the particular case of some particular thing, maybe there's a case for rewind = such as "Oi, get out of my car and you owe me £1000 for damages during the theft".
But when it's hundreds of years and millions of people with vastly changed borders and political systems and miscegenation by the megaton, it's normally ridiculous.
For example reparations for Negroes in USA for slavery a few centuries ago. Obama, a half Caucasian very wealthy kleptocrat son of a Kenyan passer-by whose ancestors surely owned slaves should not receive loot robbed from some Jewish descendant of a refugee from the Third Reich who is living near the breadline.
Best that can be done is to stop doing evil collectivist things from now on.
If some Indian tribe has some scalp from the 18th century, or even 19th, obtained during conflict with new Euro arrivals, the descendants of that scalpee shouldn't be able to demand the scalp be given to somebody else.
Similarly with dried tattooed heads that Maoris made from slave and other victims and sold to British, kept in Enland, though those were given to descendants of the murderous sellers in recent decades.
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