Another way of asking this question, but not limited to these two – is – should the sins of the father be borne by the son? These questions are framed to solicit feelings of unfairness. I also purposely used the word borne instead of “paid” and I’ll explain why shortly.
Is it really just unfair? Unfair is someone jumping in line or something like that. The idea contained in the questions are worse than unfair – it’s unjust! But that’s exactly what some are asking us to do. Do the time for someone else’s crime.
I used borne instead of paid because the same people are saying that sins that were committed over one hundred years ago, need to be perpetually borne by people who had nothing to with them. If I used paid, it says that the debt will finally be squared. But it can never be squared – not to them. So borne is appropriate in the sense that we are collectively bearing the debts of the past. How? When the gentrified class claims endemic social injustice, it assigns the sins of the father on the son. We are – the son.
Out of respect for your time, I’ll just post two pictures and explain in them who were perpetrators and should pay for their actions and who were innocent “sons” being made to suffer the consequences of the actions of the perpetrators.
These officers were responsible for the specific injustice of George Floyd’s death.
These are victims of the injustice of the riots. These victims were made to pay for sins they did not commit.
In my next post, I’ll talk about the saying “There’s a pony in there somewhere.” In the meantime be well and God bless us all.
Grateful Immigrant 