(May 9, 2019 at 4:37 pm)Amarok Wrote:(May 9, 2019 at 4:34 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Your great-great-great grandfather is still part of your same genetic lineage. Do you bear responsibility for his crimes?Your comparing apples and oranges . A family line isn't the same a legal governing body .
Boru
*shrug* Governing bodies are made up of human beings. Governance constitutes the acts of those human beings. None of the people who acted to legitimize, continue, and support slavery are with us today.
Simply because a continuance of government exists doesn't seem to be enough reason to place responsibility of the acts of a prior government on the current one - the people are different, the mindset is different, the laws are different.
Boru
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