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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I'm not arguing that Canada or the US should be returned, we frankly slaughtered way to many for that to be practical, but I am arguing we need to acknowledge the theft and try to provide the few survivors of our genocide with the same life the rest of us have been enjoying on the backs of their suffering, a decent education, not living with generational dysfunction and addiction issues we caused, that's our responsibility, to make some small amends
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I think there is a reasonable conversation to be had on how to handle the people who did not prevail in a conflict (any conflict). This is a topic on which reasonable people can disagree.
I think there are three challenges that present themselves. Discussion of "stealing" and "theft" assumes that we can assign ownership to a small number of nomadic people who basically did not practice agriculture and had a vanishingly small population density. Second, it is very difficult to establish descendant-based compensation without getting into some very racist weeds on the topic considering that healthy societies see extensive inter-marriage between ethnic groups. Third, the more time that passes the more an argument can be made that compensation is punishing people for the "sins of their fathers" - something that is generally considered morally unacceptable.