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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Did they renounce the inheritance built on human misery and a pile of 20,000 human hands? Or that parts inherited but the sins aren't?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As amusing as I'd find the Dutch royal family ceasing to exist over ancestral guilt, as an anti-monarchist, I don't know how many degrees of separation you require before an inheritance is no longer considered blood-soaked. Is it infinite?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why is it acceptable to you that the wealth is handed down but ludicrous that the blood is handed down with it?

If someone became an overnight billionaire for murdering your children, how many generations of their kids driving around in Bugattis would it take for you to consider that fortune washed of its sins?

Apparently demanding a wealthy person part with wealth is more upsetting to some people than cutting off people's hands to acquire it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

So you argue that it is infinite, then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If I can still see the wealth than I can still see the blood.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Anyone who looks closely enough can still see the wealth of the atrocities of our ancestors. So is that a yes? Is it infinite?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

Don't exactly need a microscope to see the wealth of the royal family and you can dedicate an entire museum to the atrocities they comitted to grow it.

You really want someone to say "infinite" though. Do you have a point riding on it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That is a neat trick, how do you do that? Is it like Shingami eyes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You keep repeating the severed hands bit but that was Belgium, not NL. Educate yourself before meming online.