Obviously this is no excuse for crimes that are *still ongoing*. It's more... Where is the cut off point where atrocities that happened after that point suddenly count and ones before it don't? Why?
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I should maybe emphasise that I'm thinking out loud and noting an incongruity, not making a political point about how we definitely shouldn't feel guilty about more modern crimes. I don't know what we should do here.
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Similar to how a lot of what Nazi Germany did was things that the British empire did in Africa, the Nazis just had the poor taste to do it closer to home so we couldn't ignore it like we did with the Brits. One possible conclusion is we should feel more guilty, not less.
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Hmm, what's an example? My takeaway from reading history has been more mixed. How recent is recent history?
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The prompting thought was reading about ancient wars and slave taking in early history, especially in ancient Greece, and the sheer scope of slavery in Athens and especially Sparta
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It’s very interesting. I’ve been thinking about this lately while reading The Silk Roads. Just got done reading about the Arab slave trade and now I’m reading about 15-1700s period of exploration and man what a reminder of how fucking brutal humans are to each other
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keep fighting it just as hard if not harder, because no one alive remembers how bad it can really get
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Extremely short-term thinking (250ms-1s) aligns well with extremely longterm thinking (1000 years). The medium-term, in days, weeks, and months- that's where funny things happen.
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