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If A's stabbing of B causally led to B's descendants being poor and B's descendants being rich, then we should obviously transfer some wealth from A's descendan
by ijpsud 6y ago
If A's stabbing of B causally led to B's descendants being poor and B's descendants being rich, then we should obviously transfer some wealth from A's descendants to B's descendants. That's just good economic/political incentive design.
EDIT: To be clear, I'm not claiming anything about this Dutch case, I'm just playing along with your contrived example.
- whatshisface 6y agoWhat happens if B got their money by being so effective at stabbing that after stabbing Z, they got Z's money and Z had no descendants? You can't give B's money back to Z's descendents, but you can't give A's money back to B without treating B's genocide more kindly than A's oppression.
- Veen 6y agoYou would struggle to establish that "A's stabbing of B causally led to B's descendants being poor". It's not enough to argue that A stabbed B and B is now poor therefore A caused B's poverty, which would be a post hoc fallacy.
- ijpsud 6y agoI'm pretty sure you posted this after my edit, but in case you didn't, please read that. I'm not the one that came up with this contrived "A stabs B" example, and I never claimed that "for any A that stabs B, then B is causally at a financial disadvantage in the future" (though I would claim this effect in the real world, on average, but that's off topic).