"Gary Drescher" wrote in
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"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Gary Drescher" wrote:

If your father had stolen my father's car and you inherited it,
wouldn't it
be just for me to recover it from you?

If I am innocent, why would it be just to punish me?

It would not. That's why I didn't suggest it. (For example, I did not
suggest that you be imprisoned for the theft; *that* would be an
appropriate punishment for whoever is guilty of the theft.)

Seeking to return stolen property to its rightful owner is not legally
or morally the same as seeking to punish whoever had received the stolen
property, innocently or not. (Of course, if you knew or had reason to
know that it was stolen, then you're not so innocent at all.)

--Gary

Returning stolen property to it's rightful owner is one thing. But
we are talking about you and me today paying blacks of today some
sort of punitive reparations for what happened over a hundred years
ago by people and to people who are long dead.

Brian
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