Responding to historical injustices: Collective inheritance and the moral irrelevance of group identity

I argue that changes in the numerical identity of groups do not necessarily speak favour supersession some historical injustice. contend correlativity between perpetrator and victim injustices is broken when changes. develop this argument by considering indigenous people's claims Argentina for suffered during Conquest Desert. present claimants need to be part same entity whose members many years ago. For identifying proper recipients reparation, all necessary group who injustice under consideration has survived into present. also support a view upon which living certain have reasons redress those perpetrated their predecessors if they are relevantly connected with each other. In particular, relying on notion collective inheritance, present-day claim continuation past bequeathed them goods, cannot consistently reject such membership very people legated evils.