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Ironic that you use the Wild West as an example. Do you think the world would be better now if the British had just worked on improving Britain rather than set
by epanchin 7y ago
Ironic that you use the Wild West as an example.
Do you think the world would be better now if the British had just worked on improving Britain rather than settling in America?
I’m sure there were many people calling the settlers silly back then too.
- perfmode 7y agoIt's a coin toss. America, as it came, came at a huge cost. And over the course of 300+ years, it was carried out in possibly the least ethical manner possible. I for one would have been happy for the Europeans to evolve for another 1000 years before they set foot in the Americas, in earnest, under the aspect of eternity.
- notahacker 7y ago> Do you think the world would be better now if the British had just worked on improving Britain rather than settling in America? I suspect quite a few Native Americans do...
- spraak 7y agoI meant it as in "the freedom to do what one wants", not so much literally. And even so, Mars has probably less resources than even the (physical) Wild West did. In another comment I made the analogy that Earth is like a car in need of repair, and Mars is a rusting junker in the forest - in far worse of a state than Earth, but somehow there is the desire to go there.
- Retra 7y agoThe settlers back then were not trying to settle a barren rock with no breathable atmosphere or heat. If Britain had tried settling Antarctica, things would have gone very differently. And as others pointed out, America was already settled when Europeans arrived, so what innovation even occurred there?