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What's the point in pardoning dead people?
What's the point in pardoning dead people?
Can a government today even issue a pardon for crimes alleged by a government of 1302? It’s not even the same institution.
Are you sure? Italy has a lot of historical continuity. If you go to Rome, the manhole covers read SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus). IIRC the government of Florence still works from the buildings of the Uffizi.
What's the point in pardoning dead people?
Lots of people seemed to appreciate Alan Turing (and lots of other people) being pardoned for something that should never have been a crime in the first place. Basically, it's a very concrete sign of how we want our society to be now.
Seriously, why bother? There are historical wrongs that continue to affect people today, but in this case that's been damped out by time.
Because it matters to his descendants?
Then again I’m more interested in my reputation regarding things I have done rather than things someone else did.
I'd say they don't have legal standing.
1302 to today, that's 36 generations. 2 to the 36th means his descendants today have 1 / 70,000,000,000 of his genetic contribution. I'd say they don't have legal standing.
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Lots of people seemed to appreciate Alan Turing (and lots of other people) being pardoned for something that should never have been a crime in the first place. Basically, it's a very concrete sign of how we want our society to be now.
i.e. rewriting history.
1302 to today, that's 36 generations. 2 to the 36th means his descendants today have 1 / 70,000,000,000 of his genetic contribution. I'd say they don't have legal standing.
You're forgetting to double count for "incest".