kmich wrote:
An unfortunately familiar presentation of smug, facile cynicism.
I suppose to the purebloods, say either vampire or lycan, living in a past that occurred before one's birth, creates a perverse sense of satisfaction thru either guilt or victimhood. Their bleak future seems to be one of self-inflicted pain. Free will can be very just.
But to those of us of mixed heritage, it seems pointless for me to apologize to myself for what some of my ancestors did to my other ancestors just a few decades before my birth. I would need to adopt a special form of schizophrenia to find this to be therapeutic.
Tis a fascinating situation, those who did no evil, getting a sense of a clean conscious, simply by apologizing to those who suffered no evil, and those who suffered no evil getting a sense of justice, from an apology, delivered by those who did them no evil. Will our mental gymnastics never cease?
In the same sense, please allow me to apologize today, for what some of my descendants might someday do to some of your descendants.
Wow! It works! I feel my burden of guilt lightening.
Now, if you will also perform the same courtesy to me, it will lighten my sense of victimhood.
Me thinks we have been previously warned about engaging in this sense of foolishness:
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."