> However, rejecting it isn't cowardice. It's spiritual growth. sure is. it's also what gives us the feeling we have a right (if not duty if you add religion o

> However, rejecting it isn't cowardice. It's spiritual growth. sure is. it's also what gives us the feeling we have a right (if not duty if you add religion or moral arguments) to forcefully integrate these societies (for the purpose of taxation / corvée / slavery) the way we have done it since thousands of years. Oldest example perhaps China's expanding kingdoms creating hill tribes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott#The_Art_of_Not_Being_Governed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott#The_Art_of_Not_...