It has bugger all to do with either history or philiosophy.
The point is that people such as yourself try to justify the wrongs of today by pointing at the past like petulant children who point and say "but Johnny did it", it just doesn't wash as an excuse.
The only way to make changes to the future is to accept the wrongdoing and correct it , instead the majority of people are happy to bury thier heads in the sand and pretend they don't see the truth.

I personally don't really care much for mankind and to be brutally honest I believe we could do with a few billion less people , I do however have an obsession with the truth.
Denial of our faults only allows us to keep believing we are perfect and we most definately are not.

The dirty tricks our goverments use will always come back to bite them or future generations in the arse.

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What would some example's of wrongs that need correcting, and by whom?

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I guess I just dont get the whole " Im so dark and mysterious" role. Man has screwed over man since the beginning of time and will continue to do so, I get it. I accept that as part of life. If that makes me selfish or bad or whatever point your getting at, so be it. When it comes right down to it, all I want is for my wife and children and mother to live as nice as possible. Aside from that, everything else is secondary to me. I plan on living and doing exactly as I please until the day I die. And thats the way it should be for everyone. Except for the Brits, for they will be punished for their partition of India & Pakistan and all the babies that cried as a result. Although while I was in London in the Spring, Picadilly looked more Peshawar so I guess they have laughed last. So my bad, there is a wrong thats been righted right there.

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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

H.L. Mencken

You're really missing the point.
It isn't about correcting the past it's about being honest about our part in the present.

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Fate decides who walks into your life, you decide who you let stay, who you let walk away, and who you refuse to let walk out.

Im with ya so far.......I know our nation, like all the others, is involved in some shady dealings. No doubt. Are we talking specifics? Iran....Global Warming...what?

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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

H.L. Mencken