06-17-2015, 06:53 AM
The CSA was a completely different matter.
Every comparison will have differences. The time frame is different. The location is different. The people are different:
You can't step in the same river twice.
You can't go home again.
Time passes on. Things change.
... many would feel guilty and feel reparations would be just. Not like now.
Some people may feel guilt, but then ask them if their guilt is so great they want to pay higher taxes to provide reparations. Most likely they'd rather have a new hospital, road or park in their hometown. That is the choice they will have to face when you ask them to pay reparations.
Most reparations are paid when a country loses a war and the payment is forced. Very rarely is it offered, as in the case of Japanese interment detainees. And that was 50 years after the fact. The detainees also had direct personal losses, homes and businesses in their names were taken from them. Losses that could be categorized and tabulated, Western style.
Every comparison will have differences. The time frame is different. The location is different. The people are different:
You can't step in the same river twice.
You can't go home again.
Time passes on. Things change.
... many would feel guilty and feel reparations would be just. Not like now.
Some people may feel guilt, but then ask them if their guilt is so great they want to pay higher taxes to provide reparations. Most likely they'd rather have a new hospital, road or park in their hometown. That is the choice they will have to face when you ask them to pay reparations.
Most reparations are paid when a country loses a war and the payment is forced. Very rarely is it offered, as in the case of Japanese interment detainees. And that was 50 years after the fact. The detainees also had direct personal losses, homes and businesses in their names were taken from them. Losses that could be categorized and tabulated, Western style.
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”