So if your ancestors did something wrong, you’re tainted with evil and you need to be held accountable for their actions? Does that make sense?
Romans 5:12: Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned—
There are of course modern parallels.
You are born in the US, that is your birthright. You get certain benefits and privileges that those born in other countries don’t have.
Yes we are tainted with evil due to what our ancestors did.
No, I don't see us as being accountable for our ancestors' actions.
We are accountable for our own, but we have inherited what they've given us, good and bad, so to that degree you might say we are accountable.
You might say we were set up.
And yes, it does make sense from a certain point of view, given our inheritance from the first parents and what all have done since to saturate this world with sin.
It's hard for us to find, let alone stay on, the Path of Virtues in this world.