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Originally Posted by Livia

The British Empire was a long time ago. It's the Commonwealth now and that's a good thing. So good that Mozambique, which was never part of the Empire asked to join and was accepted.

People shaft each other and power corrupts. It's human nature. But there's a balance; for all the harm that's done there are selfless acts of kindness.

A few hundred years ago is not really a "long time" ago, though, is it? It's taken a long time for things to start to unravel, but we're certainly there. I've mentioned before in other threads - the road down won't be quick either.

I disagree that there's balance. There is selflessness and kindness... but there is nowhere near enough of it to change the path we're on.