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To: 2big2fail

Not even then.

As Kipling observed, never pay the Dane Geld no matter how trivial the cost may be.

Once you do the Danes never go away.

Do you think paying reparations once would work? Realize that the aggrieved entity isn’t a person but an entity, an abstraction of persons, and persons through that entity claim vicarious suffering and attribute to others vicarious guilt.

The entity doesn’t die just because you pay off some persons. Other persons will come up after them who will have the exact same grievances, the exact same attitudes and the exact same vicarious suffering ... just as they will engage in similar corruptions of blood to demand their reparations in turn. It can never end because the abstraction of persons, the entity, can never forgive or be sated ... and no one can ever forgive on its behalf because anyone can claim its injuries with ease.

So screw them all. They deserve nothing and none deserve to be made to pay them off.

Reparations to those who didn’t personally endure, from those who didn’t injure, are to justice what amnesties are to sound border policy.


19 posted on 07/12/2018 8:07:49 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Rurudyne

I’m still thinkin’ somebody is owed transportation food and lodging payments. Just sayin’........


30 posted on 07/12/2018 8:39:11 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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