• 01011@monero.town
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    3 days ago

    Many. Pretending that you don’t benefit from past criminality is passively doing the same thing which seems to be the default of a lot of (most?) white westerners.

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      4 days ago

      Criminality is a tricky one. What was legal in the past may not be legal nor ethically sound today.

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        4 days ago

        Criminal or not the golden rule has been around for a long time. Their actions were and are immoral, dare I say evil. People know that which is reprehensible, it’s those things that they do not wish to be done to them.

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          Lots of people eat meat today. I can imagine a future where this is seen as immoral and not following the golden rule. But for some reason, humans currently choose not to apply the golden rule to animals.

          Similarly in the past, they didn’t apply it to indigenous people.

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          Criminal or not the golden rule has been around for a long time

          So have wars over land

          Their actions were and are immoral, dare I say evil

          Welcome to the world, there’s a reason we signed up to a 300 billion dollar deal for some submarines and it’s not because we enjoy the look of them