An interesting aspect to reading history is understanding how incredibly tame in comparison to the 10,000+ years preceding them the more modern crimes of recent history that we're supposed to feel eternally guilty for are.

What to do with this, I don't know, but it's interesting

Obviously this is no excuse for crimes that are *still ongoing*. It's more... Where is the cut off point where atrocities that happened after that point suddenly count and ones before it don't? Why?

I should maybe emphasise that I'm thinking out loud and noting an incongruity, not making a political point about how we definitely shouldn't feel guilty about more modern crimes. I don't know what we should do here.

Similar to how a lot of what Nazi Germany did was things that the British empire did in Africa, the Nazis just had the poor taste to do it closer to home so we couldn't ignore it like we did with the Brits.

One possible conclusion is we should feel more guilty, not less.

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