I always wonder how intelligent conscientious people in the US and other countries of so-called new continents can live in their countries mentally or psychologically peacefully without feeling guilty.
Because it is very clear, if you study the history, that it was not their land untill only very recently. Their land belonged to the people who lived there and were forced to move from where they used to live.
If they say to their children, "if you take something from others against their will, you have to return it", they have to return their land to those who it belonged to.
I hear Australians have returned some land to the natives.
I can see that they felt that things were not quite right from the ethical viewpoint of the second half of 20th century.
A friend of mine says "that is called loser's psychology".
We, the Japanese, must return Hokkaido, the nothern island, to the Ainu, though. I feel guilty.
Wars for resources forever ???!!!
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