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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sejs" data-source="post: 2763143" data-attributes="member: 4910">You do have a point, but allow me to offer a qualifier.Much of the continuing issues that you mentioned are in large part based on recursive violence and hatred on both sides of the fence.  They got you, so you got them, so they got you, so you got them, etc, etc.  Keep going 'round and 'round for as long as the two groups are there to do it.  Conversely by comparisson, an elf holding a grudge over something that happened hundreds of years ago would be like an Italian man still being pissed off at the Germans because they sacked Rome that one time, or a Brit being ticked off about that whole colonial thing.  I just can't see staying angry for that long.  Unless the situation is continuing in some way, or, as above, recursive, the influx of new memories and experiences are eventually push those old events off the map.  Sure, you can remember 'em if you think about it, but they're not up there in your normal day-to-day thought process.</blockquote>