How far back, should we go when wanting apologies or reparations for a wrong doing?
The Romans invaded us, and there have been many more since, history is full of cases where people have done things which today we do not see as right, and the world war one, reparations were in part blamed for world war two, and it was the victors who paid with World War II for the goods...
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I personally feel I owe no one a single penny and likewise the UK....
I am very much a self-made man, making my own fortune, but with the usual nurturing from the government and my parents. I inherited, not a single penny, on my parent's deaths....
Looking back in history, many of the UK's working people were likewise oppressed, and my own ancestors were certainly part of that oppression, not much better, or different from slavery. Do I feel I'm in need of reparation - no, not at all, it's just how things were, back then. I was born, and lived my early life in a back to back, with little in the way of facilities - no hot water, no bath, the only means of cooking a coal fired range in the living room. No car, until much later, we walked, or used public transport and basically struggled. I always remember there was a pensioner who lived opposite us, crippled, living alone. He couldn't afford electric light, he used a little paraffin lamp. I would run errands for him, to the shop, his treat, was a couple of ounces of cheese, for a few pence.
The only thing I took with me, was a decent education, a can do attitude, a firm desire to get on, and succeed. I spent 45 years, earning what I own. I feel I did good - I live where I want to live, in a comfortable, warm home, with all the facilities I ever wanted. Why might anyone feel I owe anyone else a living, or any reparations?
