Reparation

if an individual is harmed by an unjust, racist policy or practice, and that individual never received compensation proportional to the magnitude of harm, are the descendants of that individual legally entitled to compensation proportional to the magnitude of harm

ancestor-legal question

if an individual is harmed by an unjust, racist policy or practice, and that individual never receives compensation proportional to the magnitude of harm, are the descendants of that individual morally entitled to compensation proportional to the magnitude of harm

ancestor-moral question

reparations

compensation for harms that have been done to an individual or their ancestors

ancestors

considering the individual-moral and the individual-legal question, reparations can be more tricky than that because we are often concerned with harms that occurred to an individual's __________________... then we need to ask how far back we go.

if an individual is harmed by an unjust, racist policy or practice, is that individual legally entitled to compensation proportional to the magnitude of harm

individual legal question

if an individual is harmed by an unjust, racist policy or practice, is that individual morally entitled to compensation proportional to the magnitude of harm

individual moral question

wishes, wrong, good, ancestors'

is x sues y and x dies before x's case is won, then x's next of kin (often children) are entitled to the winnings, baring the possibility that more sophisticated legal mechanisms aren't in place. one way this might be justified is if it was in x's ______________ that their resources go to their children and perhaps it is ______________ to go against x's wishes regarding what they are owed or at the very least, we should do something that x wold take to be __________. in response to the ancestor-moral question, then perhaps we can say, "yes, provided that it doesn't go against the ____________ wishes that the descendants receive the compensation"

if the legal practice of transferring compensation to children when the parent is unable to receive compensation is justified and obligatory, then so are reparations

legal-moral compensation conditional

descendant, better, compensation, unjust

objection to the long distance harms approach - suppose we magically have a good reason to think that a particular _______________ of a slave would not have been ______________ off if their ancestors were not enslaved. according to the LDH approach, this descendant would not be entitled to any _______________, even thought their ancestors were treated unjustly and inhumanely, and neither they, nor any of their descendants were appropriately compensated for it. isn't that ______________ though?

compensation for harms that have been done to an individual or their ancestors

reparations definition

individual-moral, descendants, ARE, descendants, better, compensation

the long distance harms approach uses the ___________________ question, and argues that the _________________ of people who were enslaved __________ harmed by the fact that their ancestors were enslaved and were never duly compensated for it. we can say this by noting that we have good reason to think that the _____________ would be much _______________ off if their ancestors, weren't, in fact enslaved without due _____________________