Slavery and Apaches
General Discussions ( Anything Goes )
Not at all, I don't see how a box would be effective, a machete would do so much more, but that is charming coming from a resident of a country/island who's ancestors killed off all the large indigenous mammals hundreds of years ago.
Tomorrow you'll be sober, with a headache, and sorry you did this, haha!I'm not in disagreement with your point - accepting the role of "victim" is dangerous because it makes you a victim. I agree that "compensatory" actions and behaviours are undesirable because (1) how can you POSSIBLY "compensate" for something so horrible as the Holocaust or the attempted genocide of the native populations of the western hemisphere or Australia; and (2) how can the descendants of the oppressor "compensate" the descendants of the oppressed?I don't feel that it's that simple, though, I think it's very complicated and there's no "one-size-fits-all."If you're an African-American, should you be paid reparations for our country's history of slavery? What if you were a surviving slave, still living - should you be compensated for the life you lost and the work you did by the people who enslaved you and got the fruit of your labor? It seems simple to me that you should. What if you were that person's child, grandchild, great-grandchild? That seems simple to me, too, they would have gotten the fruit of your labor and you could estimate or measure injury to succeeding generations. What if you can't prove that your ancestors were slaves? What if some of your ancestors were slaves and some were plantation owners who kept slaves? Not so simple.If you're Native American, that's very complicated and it varies from tribe to tribe. In some cases, tribes receive monies from the US Government which were negotiated in a treaty - that seems simple to me, it's a contract. The US Government is supposed to pay other tribes for taking natural resources from their lands and that also seems simple to me, you pay for something you take but in some, many, cases the US government either hasn't made those payments as agreed or has made them into a fund the Bureau of Indian Affairs was supposed to oversee and then took them out to pay for something else. I'm sure there are other types of payments and I just don't what they are.So, generalities aside, do you think a man or woman should keep their word when they give it? Should a country? Should we uphold and abide by treaties that we make or are they "just a scrap of paper"? Do governments have ethical precepts or codes they should abide by or should they just do whatever whoever happens to be in power wants to do?And the reptile show was great, he brought a female king cobra, bunches of other snakes and lizards and I got to be the "helper" with the albinoa constrictor, (2 meters long) and hold the tail end while he held the head end so that the kids could come and pet it. She was gorgeous and soft and smooth and curled her tail around my hand because all the people made her nervous.
