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Originally Posted by Black Peter
Paying reparations works when the perpetrator pays the victim. Not when their innocent descendants pay someone who wasn't a victim.
If you accept that victims should be entitled to compensation it's hard to argue that the children or heirs to their estate are entitled to nothing.
Because if they were paid in a timely manner in most cases this would directly translate to larger inheritances being left, and it's coming out of the remnants of the estates of people who would have been held accountable. It's not as if there's no precedence for making claims on behalf of or against a persons estate after their death... you can do that for a lot of different reasons.
It's just that the more generations removed you are it gets exponentially more difficult to estimate damages and to map out who is owed what. And nobody really cares to take on that task on behalf of some individuals being singled out for large payouts - instead, if you really believed in making the world a more fair place, you'd just champion a cause that gets people who rolled high at life to pad the depths of despair for the people who rolled low. Zomg socialism.