> [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. My grandmother and the rest of that side of the family were kicked off of their family farms because the US wouldn't give out farm loans. Black people didn't get the GI Bill, and The Greatest Generation went to fight Nazis with a segregated military. Jim Crow lasted until my grandparents were in their thirties. I went to a defacto segregated grammar school where we had to share textbooks. Black people have slightly more than the amount of wealth they had when they were kicked out onto the highway after 300 years of work from birth to death.
I think you're choosing the window that's most convenient for you. You don't want anybody to be able to make claims on what you yourself have, so you want any claims made before you were born dismissed. 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'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.
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> [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. My grandmother and the rest of that side of the family were kicked off of their family farms because the US wouldn't give out farm loans. Black people didn't get the GI Bill, and The Greatest Generation went to fight Nazis with a segregated military. Jim Crow lasted until my grandparents were in their thirties. I went to a defacto segregated grammar school where we had to share textbooks. Black people have slightly more than the amount of wealth they had when they were kicked out onto the highway after 300 years of work from birth to death.
I think you're choosing the window that's most convenient for you. You don't want anybody to be able to make claims on what you yourself have, so you want any claims made before you were born dismissed. 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.