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Should we punish a man for a decision he made 61 years ago?
Should we weight that which he did at 17 over that which he did in the subsequent 61-years? Including winning a Nobel Prize for Literature? And promoting peace over aggression?
And if you're wondering what did Grass do to promote peace? Read The Tin Drum.
Poland needs to get over it (Score:2)
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Re:Poland needs to get over it (Score:2)
a> didn't kill your father
and
b> seems to be a productive member of your society.
Not that I can claim to understand, I'm not a 70-ish year old man who lost his dad 65-ish years ago. Of course my dad is a pecker head so what do I
Re:Poland needs to get over it (Score:2)
Re:Poland needs to get over it (Score:2)
Re:Poland needs to get over it (Score:2)
Re:Poland needs to get over it (Score:2)
redemption (Score:1)
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If they want to revoke the honorary citizenship on the basis of his lying about his wartime status for sixty years - and knowing that there would never been an
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I don't think that I would vote to revoke it, because he is a worthy person regardless of what he did at age 17. But I am not a citizen of Poland or Gdansk. I don't think that their conclusion is of necessity unjustified. However, in something like this compassion tells more of a person that righteousness. Rather than usin
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Obviously Poland won't commit "suicide", but the two stories have some high-level similarities, even if the details are very different.
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Re:redemption (Score:2)
I can only hope that who i am now mitigates who i used to be.
One of my brothers and i have long talks about who we used to be versus who we are. We have not come to any conclusions, nor do we really expect to: all that we have come up with is that we are not who we were, and that that's a good thing, and that we hope it's enough.
Should my accomplishments be considered less because i have hurt people? (i have.) What if they were people you knew? (they probably we