Hi, Jon.
It is my opinion that it is a sin to hold children accountable for the sins of their fathers.
Okay. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
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It is just an opinion, but I expect it is shared by others.
Sure. It's shared by me, for instance.
Now, if you're saying, "According to Jon Paine and Chiroptera's personal sense of morality, it is wrong to hold people accountable for the sins of their ancestors," then I guess you would be making a true statement.
If you're saying, "According to the principles of modern liberal democracy, it is wrong to hold people accountable for the crimes of their ancestors," then I would definitely say you are correct.
But to make a blanket statement like "It is wrong to hold people accountable for the crimes of their ancestors," would not be true at all, not unless you're making a claim that there are some objective standards of morality independent of our subjective opinions. We've wasted quite a few threads here on arguing about that very point.
It would be very interesting if you were making such a claim. There are some people here who claim that one needs to believe in a god (or that a god must exist -- sometimes I can't figure out their argument) in order to accept an objective morality. While I've always believe that the two are not logically related, it would be interesting if there were an instantiation of this.
Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. --
Charley the Australopithecine