Here's a dark economics throwaway thought Against reparations: Suppose we establish a strong norm that descendants of oppressive groups \
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must compensate the descendants of oppressed groups for the actions of their forebears. Suppose also that oppressive forebears expect this \
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and care about the welfare of their descendants and can take actions to increase it. Depending on parameterization, outcome is p Bleak /fin
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This does assume that oppressors know that their behavior will be seen as oppressive, rather than justified and deserved.
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more seriously, at least in modern times people committing morally-outrageous acts usually do their best to conceal them, I think?
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But that's people individual acts, not systematic oppression of the reparations kind. People think what the police do, e.g., is just Right.
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Hmm. Police behavior in the US is a solid counterexample. I had--say--things like the recent Chechnya horrors in mind, where gov't hides \
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its travesties, but then: Uganda was done openly. I think I'm stuck at "things are messy and I don't have clean intuition about why"
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