Both of you are lumping all Chinese people together as a monolith. Let's put it this way.
If you come to my house and beat me up and loot my stuff, and then burn most of my house down, but I survive, and then a mob of poor people came by and then destroyed other artifacts in my house, do the actions of the mob of poor people absolve you, the original looter?
Does it complicate or simplify things if you, the original looter, also sold opium to the mob of poor people?
Re:The Great Chinese Art Heist
by i_am_nomad on Friday August 17, 2018 @03:48PM
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And you're lumping Western people together in the exact same way.
If I go to your house and beat you up, you have every right to call the police on me and they should be able to throw me in jail, and keep an eye on me until I've reformed my ways. However, this doesn't mean you can go to my house and start stealing all my things: just like any other immoral act, as you point out, one crime doesn't absolve another. This should apply even if you're a policeman.
Accordingly, the USSR should not have seized Kaliningrad, Stettin, and Silesia. Don't you think those territories should be returned to Germany?