This is my John Galt speaking cartoon

[Jim]

Hi,

A common fault in these types of discussions is to hold people of the past accountable to our present morality and fault them for their failure to live up to a moral code that they never ascribed to. And to compare moral codes is, ultimately, a foolish thing. Most moral codes are a mixture of superstition, prejudice, and pragmatism.

Human failures are funny things; the more remote, the more clearly seen. We have no problem seeing the evils committed throughout history and the wrongdoings of distant rulers. But we seem be blind to much of our own evils and wrongdoings.

--Pete

Hi,

Your thoughts about holding people Today accountable for the Past? I personally do not want to be held accountable.

John Wayne's opinion of Native Americans. September 4, 2005 5:55 AM The interview is reprinted in The Playboy Intervew (Wideview Books, c1981).
Here is the text of one answer about the Indians:

In an interview with Playboy magazine published on May 1, 1971, Wayne made several controversial remarks about race and class in the United States. The interview became a hot topic and many stores had trouble keeping the issue in stock.

He noted that, as someone living in the 20th century, he was not responsible for the way people who lived one hundred years before him had treated Native Americans, stating:
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them if that's what you're asking. Our so called stealing of this country was just a question of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

Look, I'm sure there have been inequalities. If those inequalities are presently affecting any of the Indians now alive, they have a right to a court hearing. But what happened 100 years ago in our country can't be blamed on us today.

I'm quite sure that the concept of a Government-run reservation... seems to be what the socialists are working for now — to have everyone cared for from cradle to grave.

What happened between their forefathers and our forefathers is so far back -- right, wrong or indifferent -- that I don't see why we owe them anything. I don't know why the government should give them something that it wouldn't give me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne

From a John Galt cartoon to a discussion about Native American genocide is a subject that should not get lost in a cartoon thread should we start a new Post?