The fruit of the Other's work--their research, their art, their innovations--is necessarily worth more than the Other's lives to the colonialist. It's obvious

The fruit of the Other's work--their research, their art, their innovations--is necessarily worth more than the Other's lives to the colonialist. It's obvious that lives (and memory) are worth more to anyone with compassion who can recognize other people's humanity. That is only a debate and only interesting if you engage in it to remind someone with a colonialist mindset of their own shared humanity.