Re:U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native Americ...
by StanislavPetrov on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:16AM
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>How long should a child be responsible for the crimes of their fathers?
This is a fundamentally flawed analogy. Our government - the same government that has existed since these treaties were signed - is still around.
> I find it very difficult to find the moral obligation to pay back that money when the people who were the actual victims are long dead
The question of a "moral obligation" is entirely irrelevant and unrelated to our government's legal obligation to uphold the treaty that our government signed.
This is a fundamentally flawed analogy. Our government - the same government that has existed since these treaties were signed - is still around.
> I find it very difficult to find the moral obligation to pay back that money when the people who were the actual victims are long dead
The question of a "moral obligation" is entirely irrelevant and unrelated to our government's legal obligation to uphold the treaty that our government signed.