> There's no reasoning about why you should have all the benefits and none of the liabilities from your parents, other than spurious associations with other things you don't like

There are plenty of children who have (great-)(great-)grandparents on both sides of major conflicts. In our specific example, my children's great-grandfather $foo fought for the Allies in WW2, their great grandfather $bar "fought on the other side" [trying hard not to fall foul of Godwin's law here].

However I typically advise my kids to look forwards, not backwards.

> > [1] Reparations for slavery in the US is another example.

> This is gross. My mother was arrested for going into a whites-only Pizza Hut as a child.

Are you talking here about reparations for slavery or reparations for much more recent events (segregation, Jim Crow, etc)?

I think it is easier to make the case that people deserve some compensation for wrongs done in living memory, than for wrongs done over 150 years ago.