"lynx" wrote in message
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> Swampfox wrote:
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>> "lynx" wrote in message
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>>> Swampfox wrote
>>>> "lynx" wrote in message
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>>>>> Swampfox wrote
>>>>>
>>>>>> If the aboriginals had all walked off their
>>>>>> land to parts of Australia that whites didn't
>>>>>> want they would have been left alone.
>>>>>> The whites wanted the land, the aboriginals
>>>>>> were in the way, it's that simple.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Plus the little matter of the fact that the
>>>>> abbos were killing them.
>>>>>
>>>> I was being polite by saying they were in the
>>>> way, and of course they were killing whites, just
>>>> as you would if someone wanted to take your
>>>> breath away.
>>>> I have no real problem with it, being one of the
>>>> beneficiaries, but it wouldn't hurt to say sorry
>>>> and maybe give them something in return for what
>>>> we stole.
>>>>
>>> Yes, but there's the problem right there... give
>>> THEM something WE stole. By 'them' of course you
>>> mean the aboriginal people, and by 'we' white
>>> Australians. But the 'them' and 'we' of today are
>>> not those who were involved. So that being the
>>> case then, it should be the British govt doing the
>>> apologizing and compensating, since it was the
>>> Brits who 'stole' this land. But the history of
>>> the world is one of conquest, and that's not
>>> really a matter of theft. Who has a 'right' to the
>>> land they occupy? With todays laws and clearly
>>> defined territories it's easy to answer, but in
>>> the realities of the past it was just that
>>> superior civilizations were supplanting inferior
>>> ones by aggressive means. Do you want Spain to
>>> apologise to Mexico and compensate the Mexicans?
>>> Should every nation be apologizing and
>>> compensating those who were affected by what
>>> transpired in their nations history? And how far
>>> back do we go? If you do then we can start with
>>> Japan and Germany for more recent times. I'd say
>>> the amount of apologising and compensating they'd
>>> need to do would keep them busy for a very long
>>> time.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe so, but ethically and morally there's no
>> alternative, and other countries aren't our
>> concern.
>> Whether it's financial compensation or a simple
>> recognition of the wrongs committed isn't for me to
>> say but until we do what's honourable we will
>> remain, as I said, as common thieves.
>>
>
> Feel free to consider yourself a 'common thief' if
> you must. I don't consider myself to be one.
Why would you?
>
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> rgds,
>
> Pete
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> http://pw352.blogspot.com/
> 'If convincing doesn't work, try confusing'
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