03-31-2011, 07:19 AM
Hi,
Well, all this has taken yet another twist.
I said that we should not judge the people of the past (or even people in the present that live in societies different from our own) by our moral code of here and now. How that became a comment on the history of relationships between people and what is owed to whom for what that happened when is beyond my ken.
I would like to point out that Julius Caesar stole Tuscany from its rightful owners and gave it to his retiring legionnaires. I demand reparations, with 2 millenia of interest and an inflation adjusted price for the lands stolen from my ancestors. However, if it is found that my ancestors where the legionnaires and not the original owners of the land, then I'm willing to let bygones be bygones.
In the field of international real-estate, possession is 9 points of the law and the ability to shoot fast and straight is the other point.
--Pete
Well, all this has taken yet another twist.
I said that we should not judge the people of the past (or even people in the present that live in societies different from our own) by our moral code of here and now. How that became a comment on the history of relationships between people and what is owed to whom for what that happened when is beyond my ken.
I would like to point out that Julius Caesar stole Tuscany from its rightful owners and gave it to his retiring legionnaires. I demand reparations, with 2 millenia of interest and an inflation adjusted price for the lands stolen from my ancestors. However, if it is found that my ancestors where the legionnaires and not the original owners of the land, then I'm willing to let bygones be bygones.
In the field of international real-estate, possession is 9 points of the law and the ability to shoot fast and straight is the other point.
--Pete
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