Malta is an international whore, Baxxter, and you know it. Yes, we decorate Saudi princes and educate Kuwaiti medical students. We also let the Iranian shipping line circumvent UN sanctions.

As long as they pay… who cares?

Exactly. I am not their descendent. I am their brother’s descendant. And ancestors used in that context implies somebody remote in time, who you never knew.

Concise Oxford Dictionary.
Ancestor. Any of those from whom one’s father or mother is descended namely a grandfather, a grandmother and anyone else from whom they are descended and not excluding anyone of them whom “you knew”.

It’s precisely because I don’t look at World War II as simply a historic event that I don’t see it in absolutist terms.

Thanks for the welcome clarification.

That is the obvious reason why atomic bombs were dropped on a Japan still very much at war and not on Dresden in defeated Germany.

By the time atomic bombs were used in World War II, Germany had been destroyed and was out of the game.

No atomic bombs were required to destroy Dresden.

Rationality and religious faith are in conflict with each other.

Your antipathy towards Muslims is not rooted in rationality but in religious faith – that is, your own.

I do not think less of you for your Roman Catholic beliefs, just as I do not think less of others for their belief in Islam.

Freedom of worship is a fundamental and inalienable human right.