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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mucus: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [qb] Well, under any circumstances, though we might not be able to predict the exact nature of current conditions without one country helping the other, we can generally assume that the interrim period would have sucked quite mightily. And we have 52 states, now? [/qb][/QUOTE]Picky, picky. Typo-monger, although as Wraith pointed out, I might not be wrong for much longer ;) It might have sucked, it might have not. You're probably right, but we'll never know. In any case, this kind of "my-great-grandfather helped/harmed your great-grandfather, so you should help/sue me today, no matter what your beliefs are now" thinking is rather illogical. I mean, how far back are you going to draw the line? Perhaps your ancient ape-descendent stole a mammoth bone club from mine several hundred-years ago, so you owe me a genuine mammoth bone club today....either that or Snay's jeep, they both work. Witness 1of2's and Cartmaniac's debate :rolleyes: This could go on forever. "Well the Americans ripped off Napoloean when he sold them all of that land in America, so the Americans owe the French more" "But thats ok, because they ripped of the native Americans, by buying the land with petty beads, so the French really owe the natives." "..who stole it from those Homo Erectus guys" "...who took it from our common ancestor" "Fine. Even accepting that, the French started this whole liberty thing, so you never would have been able to say "give me liberty, or give me death" or any other heroic dashing things" "But we gave you the invention of the airplane!" "We gave you nationalism, you don't even have your own language, stop saying "beef" and other French descended words! Hah!" ...and so on. Obviously people are going to draw the line wherever they like, probably where they benefit the most, leading to one big mess. We should just forgo the whole thing. Be aware of what mistakes our ancestors made, learn our lessons from them (i.e. as the Germans did from the Holocaust, and not push it under the rug like the Japanese), but any sort of modern-day retribution is just.....blah. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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