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DFHippieyesterday at 2:19 PM1 replyview on HN

After a few hundred years historical injustices move down the priority list. France isn't seeking reparations from Italy for the conquest of Gaul, for example.


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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 3:33 PM

> After a few hundred years historical injustices move down the priority list

I'm actually curious for you to expand on this.

It's broadly, I think, my view. And it's been a reason I've come to disregard pretty much all historical claims to land in the Middle East, focussing on the quality of life of the people alive today where they are over where they or their ancestors were at some arbitrary point in the past.

But that largely erupts from me drawing my line between the living and the dead. (International lawyers would draw it at the end of WWII.) How do you draw yours?