On Feb 19, 7:15=A0am, "Noddy" <m...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Neil Fisher" <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> news:ev1kr35lhv3famqp43bckjlln70bte61rq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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.
Except for 'irregardless' :-)
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