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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1133927" data-attributes="member: 56232">Just hiking off the back of this regarding payments by future generations and the idea of the sins of the fathers being inherited, my ancestors going back far enough came from Ireland. I was born in England. It&#039;s likely my ancestors were the victims rather than the perpetrators of the famine (and even then you average English person had nothing to do with it either). My ancestors also would not have been involved in the slave trade, or the famine in India or any number of atrocities committed by the British state.If as a country we tax people to pay for it, there are also all the minorities that get taxed. If you exclude minorities from the taxes, you set the precedent that taxes can be racially discriminating and it&#039;s a very dangerous path to go down.Showing remorse for what happened and doing our best to ensure disadvantaged people can have the best chance in life is the best we can do to try to fix the errors of the past. I&#039;m also not a fan of pointing out all our atrocities but ignoring ones others committed. Anyone going to be asking the USSR to account for all the damage they caused or would that not count? The various regimes throughout Asian history?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1133927, member: 56232"] Just hiking off the back of this regarding payments by future generations and the idea of the sins of the fathers being inherited, my ancestors going back far enough came from Ireland. I was born in England. It's likely my ancestors were the victims rather than the perpetrators of the famine (and even then you average English person had nothing to do with it either). My ancestors also would not have been involved in the slave trade, or the famine in India or any number of atrocities committed by the British state. If as a country we tax people to pay for it, there are also all the minorities that get taxed. If you exclude minorities from the taxes, you set the precedent that taxes can be racially discriminating and it's a very dangerous path to go down. Showing remorse for what happened and doing our best to ensure disadvantaged people can have the best chance in life is the best we can do to try to fix the errors of the past. I'm also not a fan of pointing out all our atrocities but ignoring ones others committed. Anyone going to be asking the USSR to account for all the damage they caused or would that not count? The various regimes throughout Asian history? [/QUOTE]

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