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Berlin Westhafen, responsibility, and arrogance of playing a god

Once I walk around this Hafen with one of my friends, we discussed a book (*) we both read recently. The discussion goes far and in many directions. But I found two points were interesting.  Berlin Westhafen One is as in the title, ``You have no responsibility for what was happened, but you have responsibility for that not happens again. (Original: Ihr seid nicht verantwortlich fuer das, was geschah. Aber das es nicht wieder geschiert, dafuer schon)'' If I think about responsibility, I believe that the people who were not born at that time cannot have ``personal'' responsibility. Some extreme idea says someone has responsibility for all the ancestors did. It does not seem fair because the responsibility is passed on to the descendants. They are words about war, but I think it still holds in the case of war. It should be noted that what I put parentheses around "personal" here may not apply if that is not a person. The other part is an argument that the droppin