Yeah, but.. A lot of Europe was jammed up then. You've got a certain generation of people in France and other nations who were known Nazi collaborators. Where they drew the line was kind of dubious at times.
Are you forced by circumstance into your job, or are you an active participant doing war crimes with a kind of zeal that just screams, oh yeah, you're guilty as all hell.
France was maybe a bit TOO understanding as in their own history they had a century of "The Terror" where anyone who potentially did something against the people could be called out, and taken to the guillotine. Much in the same tone as cancel culture today, but, lethal..
So, they could not afford to be prosecuting every offense against god, man, common decency, or they'd effectively be scrutinizing every little thing people did to survive for the next century.. And possibly their descendants for however many generations.
Plus, you go back far enough, everyone has ancestors which did crazy shit. For the times maybe just distasteful, or maybe with good intent, but benefiting people who were at one time a pox on mankind, but who redeemed themselves, at least a little over the centuries. Like this guy..
He was a smuggler of heretics, extremists, people too poisonously religious for even Oliver Cromwell to tolerate. Mostly because a friend of his wife's was in the group, and life in the new world was mostly a death sentence for 60% of those who went. So if they want to pay criminally userous rates to displace valuable cargo. What the hell...
And off they go. In a year that was just pure shit for sailing. Landed where they landed, because the provisions were down to nothing, people were freezing and slowly dying in the holds, so maybe they starve to death on land. At least they can get out of the wet and freezing cold, dark confines, all the joys of sea travel. ;)
What the puritans became over the next century.. Was BAD. The following centuries, not that much better. They became a synonym for hell bent determination, work ethic, an infamous amount of prudish blue nosed intolerance.
The Westons, after they got burned by the puritans over a few deals where they refused to extend yet more credit, and sold their cargo to someone with cash money, the puritans lied their asses off, said he was trading with pirates... So they arranged other passage back to England after bribing the right people, and making their case back in the homeland.
To sort out who was the bigger bastard in the exchanges between these two groups over generations.. Pointless. He should have left them all to rot in the Dutch textile towns. But he didn't.. And ended up supporting several colonies of imbeciles for generations.
Time passes, and the Westons come back to the Americas. Through French Canada, eventually down to the states. Does anyone remember their dubious infamy? Outside of some bookish geeks into puritan history, nah.. Which is, actually a substantial amount of people for some narrow regions of the northeast coast. ;) So if you still sport the surname Weston in the heart of bluenose puritan, daughters of the american revolution sort of land.. Maybe find a national chain hotel, rather than a bed and breakfast. They probably won't poison you, but they'll oversalt your biscuits and gravy, give you lumpy pillows, and oversteep your tea. And at dinner claim they're all out of Old Bay seasoning(which never happens in the Northeast, EVER) :D
At some point, you have to let old conflicts go. At least at some official levels of doing business. For petty acts of poor customer service.. Oh well. Someone finds out my ancestry and gives me snickerdoodles with too much cinnamon in them, maybe they're just a bad cook. lol! Either way, probably not staying for dinner. A church potlock, maybe.. They can't do a poor job on all to food just to spite me, now can they? Well.. You never know. :D
Yeah, but.. A lot of Europe was jammed up then. You've got a certain generation of people in France and other nations who were known Nazi collaborators. Where they drew the line was kind of dubious at times.
Are you forced by circumstance into your job, or are you an active participant doing war crimes with a kind of zeal that just screams, oh yeah, you're guilty as all hell.
France was maybe a bit TOO understanding as in their own history they had a century of "The Terror" where anyone who potentially did something against the people could be called out, and taken to the guillotine. Much in the same tone as cancel culture today, but, lethal..
So, they could not afford to be prosecuting every offense against god, man, common decency, or they'd effectively be scrutinizing every little thing people did to survive for the next century.. And possibly their descendants for however many generations.
Plus, you go back far enough, everyone has ancestors which did crazy shit. For the times maybe just distasteful, or maybe with good intent, but benefiting people who were at one time a pox on mankind, but who redeemed themselves, at least a little over the centuries. Like this guy..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Weston_(merchant_adventurer)
He was a smuggler of heretics, extremists, people too poisonously religious for even Oliver Cromwell to tolerate. Mostly because a friend of his wife's was in the group, and life in the new world was mostly a death sentence for 60% of those who went. So if they want to pay criminally userous rates to displace valuable cargo. What the hell...
And off they go. In a year that was just pure shit for sailing. Landed where they landed, because the provisions were down to nothing, people were freezing and slowly dying in the holds, so maybe they starve to death on land. At least they can get out of the wet and freezing cold, dark confines, all the joys of sea travel. ;)
What the puritans became over the next century.. Was BAD. The following centuries, not that much better. They became a synonym for hell bent determination, work ethic, an infamous amount of prudish blue nosed intolerance.
The Westons, after they got burned by the puritans over a few deals where they refused to extend yet more credit, and sold their cargo to someone with cash money, the puritans lied their asses off, said he was trading with pirates... So they arranged other passage back to England after bribing the right people, and making their case back in the homeland.
To sort out who was the bigger bastard in the exchanges between these two groups over generations.. Pointless. He should have left them all to rot in the Dutch textile towns. But he didn't.. And ended up supporting several colonies of imbeciles for generations.
Time passes, and the Westons come back to the Americas. Through French Canada, eventually down to the states. Does anyone remember their dubious infamy? Outside of some bookish geeks into puritan history, nah.. Which is, actually a substantial amount of people for some narrow regions of the northeast coast. ;) So if you still sport the surname Weston in the heart of bluenose puritan, daughters of the american revolution sort of land.. Maybe find a national chain hotel, rather than a bed and breakfast. They probably won't poison you, but they'll oversalt your biscuits and gravy, give you lumpy pillows, and oversteep your tea. And at dinner claim they're all out of Old Bay seasoning(which never happens in the Northeast, EVER) :D
At some point, you have to let old conflicts go. At least at some official levels of doing business. For petty acts of poor customer service.. Oh well. Someone finds out my ancestry and gives me snickerdoodles with too much cinnamon in them, maybe they're just a bad cook. lol! Either way, probably not staying for dinner. A church potlock, maybe.. They can't do a poor job on all to food just to spite me, now can they? Well.. You never know. :D