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Originally Posted by chezlaw
We're back to your objection that I don't understand the basis for.
I'm jumping in late so I might be misunderstanding, but I can give you my objection to reparations....
You asked somewhere ITT what's wrong with paying for other people's sins. I think there's a lot wrong with it. First, I personally have nothing to atone for. Also, where does it end?
What happened to native Americans was sinful, but should things be stolen from me to make reparations? And if so, it's very possible that what you take from me will go to a tribe who at one time stole that land from another tribe! So now are they going to give what was taken from me and give it to the tribe they took the land from?
I do not think we are anywhere near racial equality in America. But the solution isn't to make reparations. It's to start treating everyone equally! End discrimination starting today!
And here's something sure to be a very unpopular thing to say in this forum, but I want to say at least 100,000 lives were lost by the union during the civil (in part) to free slaves. If those who's ancestors took part in slavery should repent and pay compensation to black people's ancestry who were slaves, does that mean whites who's ancestry died fighting the south are owed a thank you?
History is history. What's done is done. There have been many egregiously terrible things done to people. But you back and start trying to equal the balance sheet all the way back to the Romans. You make do by correcting the wrong and moving forward imo. No apology or reparations necessary unless the people who committed the acts and their victims are still alive imo.