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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (202845)	6/22/2021 2:21:51 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362602

>> Debt is owed to one's estate. You're suggesting then, that living people today owe a debt to the estates of slaves; and that such estates somehow owe those debts to generations of heirs that followed. Retroactively. Okay, I get it -- you're not literally talking about debts and estates. I know that because nothing you have said fits in conceptually with debts or estates. A little tip from someone who knows: When you start talking about debts and estates, green eyeshades are required. If you want to talk about other stuff, maybe not. But debts and estates? You have to have some reasonable accounting. Let me just ask a couple serious question: How do you know when the "debt" has been repaid? Can it ever be? How many generations does this debt persist? How do you reckon it can ever be paid? A debt that can never be paid, no matter how much the "debtor" pays, well, that's not a debt at all. That's bondage. This is the specific reason we eliminated debtor's prisons and created the concept of bankruptcy years ago: People cannot be held liable for debts (whether for money, or acts) for their entire lifetime unless the law stipulates that. Is there any reasonable interpretation of the rule of law would have a child born in say, 1980, be liable for ANYTHING pertaining to slavery? If so, please explain on what basis such debt exists, that you would take from now 40 y/o person and give to descendants of any slave one nickel? There is no equity in that picture.