explain your argument for or against reparations for slavery if in favor detail your proposal to make reparations work who pays whom and how
- Explain your argument for or against reparations for slavery. If in favor, detail your proposal to make reparations work: who pays whom, and how? Consider the moral and practical factors, whichever side you take. Some variables you may consider include, but are not limited to:
- Can you put a price on human suffering?
- Is guilt inheritable?
- Is guilt collective?
- If in favor of reparations, are there alternatives to cash payments? (Germany, for example, donated three attack submarines to the Israeli Navy in the late 1990s as reparations for the Holocaust)
- Should European countries be held responsible for slavery reparations in the colonies they held prior to their independence?
- Should modern African countries be held responsible for the role of African intermediaries in the slave trade?
