Comments by "martyn spooner" (@martynspooner5822) on "Colston 4 Jury Verdict Is a Grave Threat to Our Country - Gov't Must Take Action to Reassure Public" video.

This is such a bad precedent to set. It seems you can blatantly break the law, in front of those paid to enforce it, if whatever regime is in power agrees with your idealogy. You cannot correct the wrongs of history, that time has passed. There is not one human being amongst the 8 billion of us who can live anywhere but in the present. To try to apply todays moral standards to the past is simply an exercise in futility. The best anyone can ever hope for is to do what is right now, but that shouldn't include denying the past or applying todays standards to it.
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@michaelstanwick9690 It is but the futility arises when you think you can change the past eg destroying statues etc and blaming people today who cannot be held responsible for that which happened before they were even born. As i said the best we can do is try and do things the right way now. There are more slaves now than there were at the peak of the Alantic slave trade, some estimates say four times more. But we hear little of this and even less is being done about it even though some people are keen to go back in time where nothing can be changed and yet are blind to the present atrocity of slavery.
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@michaelstanwick9690 Yes although many people would say i am prejudiced and biased I. have no problem in saying some cultures are better than others. eg I would say that a culture that doesn't allow women to be publicly stoned to death for adultery is better, as in more advanced than one that does.
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