Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars View Post
That was the past. This is now.
With respect: that is always the answer. "It was my great-grampa, not me!", or "It wasn't even my Grampa. It was my neighbor's Grampa, the scoundrel!" "We're more enlightened nowadays, and would never do that 'colony' thing again."

The other side would say: "You don't any longer need to. The advances wroght to your country and it's people, due to the exploitation of my country and it's people, elevated you and your descendants to such a high level (compared to the rest of the world) that you can afford to sit back and muse on the higher things in life like philosophy, the existance of god, the origin of the universe, the best political system, the cup size of Ms. Spears' brassiere."