entering the whirlpool

Yes, I know that. It was meant as a rhetorical quesiton, ie, I was scrambling for a subject line on the way off to work, and that was what I came up with. I just think it's dumb that people get all worked up about it in that way... there's a big gap between feeling sorry and feeling guilty, and I don't think the latter applies to things you personally had no control over. Sometimes it's not possible to get reparation, and the [descendents of the] wronged party needs to let it go, instead of penalizing people who had nothing to do with it.