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I find it interesting that colonialism is bashed so much when in reality it brought much of the world into the modern era. would the world really be a better pl

I find it interesting that colonialism is bashed so much when in reality it brought much of the world into the modern era. would the world really be a better place if colonialism never happened ?

woofyman 10y ago
Colonialism killed hundreds of millions. https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.7.1.03.HTM https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.7.1.03.HTM Edit: Their land stolen and plundered.
- randyrand 10y ago
  "their land?" the land on this world needs to be shared.You cant just expect to own an entire continent for yourself and not have to share it.
jly 10y ago
Just to look from another viewpoint, the 'modern era' has not been so great to everyone. The individuals who were occupied, for one, may not view it this way. People of the world that are exploited by the modern era (of which they are many), also would not agree.
legodt 10y ago
Yeah, great if you are a moderately monied christian white dude... An absolute horrow show of your country being exploited, stunted, and manipulated for centuries for everyone else.
mwfunk 10y ago
Like everything, it's a mix of good and bad. Maybe it does bring many of the noncontroversial benefits of the modern world to people who would not otherwise get them, and maybe sometimes it can inflict other forms of harm to the indigenous people who are enjoying those benefits. Like everything more complicated than "1+1=2" or "the sky is blue", it's a superposition of a bunch of pros and cons that different people will all weight differently. Where human nature screws everything up is the brain's tendency to want to focus on one pro or one con and pretend like everything else doesn't matter, or ignore the fact that rational, informed people might still disagree on how each pro or con should be weighted when evaluating whether something is a net good or net bad.

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I find it interesting that colonialism is bashed so much when in reality it brought much of the world into the modern era. would the world really be a better pl

by randyrand 10y ago

I find it interesting that colonialism is bashed so much when in reality it brought much of the world into the modern era. would the world really be a better place if colonialism never happened ?

woofyman 10y ago
Colonialism killed hundreds of millions. https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.7.1.03.HTM https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.7.1.03.HTM Edit: Their land stolen and plundered.
- randyrand 10y ago
  "their land?" the land on this world needs to be shared.You cant just expect to own an entire continent for yourself and not have to share it.
jly 10y ago
Just to look from another viewpoint, the 'modern era' has not been so great to everyone. The individuals who were occupied, for one, may not view it this way. People of the world that are exploited by the modern era (of which they are many), also would not agree.
legodt 10y ago
Yeah, great if you are a moderately monied christian white dude... An absolute horrow show of your country being exploited, stunted, and manipulated for centuries for everyone else.
mwfunk 10y ago
Like everything, it's a mix of good and bad. Maybe it does bring many of the noncontroversial benefits of the modern world to people who would not otherwise get them, and maybe sometimes it can inflict other forms of harm to the indigenous people who are enjoying those benefits. Like everything more complicated than "1+1=2" or "the sky is blue", it's a superposition of a bunch of pros and cons that different people will all weight differently. Where human nature screws everything up is the brain's tendency to want to focus on one pro or one con and pretend like everything else doesn't matter, or ignore the fact that rational, informed people might still disagree on how each pro or con should be weighted when evaluating whether something is a net good or net bad.