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Originally posted by LennonCook:
Here we can use your same logic to disagree with you. We can't blame people now for something which happened, say, two hundred years ago. But by your logic, we can blame the father for what the son did; as previous sins may be revisited.
Whatever happens though, we can't blame a previous sin on a person who wasn't born when it happened.
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If my father shot your father and took his house and land, so that I was living in luxury in the house you should have lived in, am I not reaping the benefit of my fathers deed?
If I can reap the benefit, should I not reap the negatives?
Our cultures have wills and testaments. Legacy is passed down from generation to generation. Wealth, land, esteem. There are rich people in America who's families initial wealth was made on the backs of slaves.
If they can inherit the benefits, they can inherit the blame.
Certainly that is how the disspossessed see it.
If the possessor blindly ignores the views of the dispossessed, trouble brews. It's easy for the person with the house and land to say
"Just forget about it, that's in the past " because THEY OWN THE HOUSE! It's much, much harder, for the dispossesed to say that.
Until that day comes, we can't forget about it. All over the world the dispossesed are SCREAMING.
[ 05-24-2002, 09:19 PM: Message edited by: Yorick ]