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Old 08-15-2005, 08:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Bearing the Mistakes of our Ancestors

I was just perusing a different thread in which somebody said that women have been subjected to hundreds of years of injustice. I hear the same statement out of many people; whether it be for race, sex, religion, nationality, or whatever. Whenever somebody says this, it is implied that people of that certain group deserve something extra, and that people belonging to the group that caused the injustice should be punished.

Of course, the problem with these arguments is that the injustices weren't involving living individuals of either group, and, in most cases, aren't as much- if at all- of an issue anymore. In turn, believers in this system are doing me an injustice by making me pay for mistakes that I never made. Say somebody was thrown into jail for a murder that they didn't commit. It would be an outrage! Holy shit, we're dealing with the same thing here. Basically put, you're being what the French call a "hypocrite" if you use this for ammo. If you want equality, call me up and I'll fight by your side. Like in a note to my parents from my 3rd grade teacher said:

"I could not get [tspikes] to apologize to [name removed] in front of the class. However, I could not bring myself to make him embarass himself. It would only humiliate him and mean that she won and would "lord over" the situation."
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