"Neil Fisher" <neil@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:ev1kr35lhv3famqp43bckjlln70bte61rq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> As to saying sorry, well. Am I sorry that we treated people badly?
> Sure. But we are judging the events of times past by the standards of
> today. Perhaps that's all we *can* do, but I'm not entirely
> confortable with that because that implies that future generations may
> (probably *will*) have to say sorry for what I've done, irregardless
> of my intent, and I'm pretty sure that they'll see things *very*
> differently. Their different take on my actions does not change the
> fact that I am doing what I think is right with the information I
> currently have - if it turns out that I was wrong by some future
> standard, then so be it. I don't have the luxury of prescience, so I
> have to act on what I know *now*, and I might get it horribly wrong,
> but that doesn't mean that the vast majority of people wouldn't act
> the same way with the same information.
Very well said.
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Regards,
Noddy.
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