(June 1, 2012 at 1:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:it would not serve to say that because somebody in the past had committed genocide it is not of their descendants to condemn genocide towards themselves.
It's merely hypocritical...yet peoples who are not on the pointed end of genocide always manage to come up with some justification for it.
It would only be hypocritical if those who were committing genocide were saying that genocide was bad. What you are suggesting would render you a hypocrite too, as you are irreligious but your ancestors were, undoubtedly, religious.
