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>On March 22, 1622, Opechancanough and his allies attacked outlying English farms and small communities. On a single day, the Native warriors killed 347 colonis
by skellyclock 3y ago
>On March 22, 1622, Opechancanough and his allies attacked outlying English farms and small communities. On a single day, the Native warriors killed 347 colonists of all ages. Colonists soon launched a series of reprisals, but they couldn’t get past the shock of the event they quickly labeled a “massacre.”
Doesn't this line state a warcrime? This occurred before the poisoning.
- richardjam73 3y agoOnly if their society considered it morally wrong.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoNo, our society can consider it wrong as well. We don't have to give anybody a pass on abhorrent behaviour because 'they didn't know better'
- richardjam73 3y agoPeople from hundreds of years ago may find many things we do abhorrent too. Does that mean we are wrong and they are right?
- krapp 3y agoIt will mean that. Morality is relative to time, culture and context. Ours will cease to matter to the future just as the morality of slaveowners has ceased to matter to us.
- Bran_son 3y ago> the shock of the event they quickly labeled a “massacre.” implies they did consider it morally wrong. Or do you mean only the society perpetrating the war crime should be the one to judge?
- richardjam73 3y agoIf the British actually considered it a war crime then why did they do the same thing to other people in many places around the world? They are only morally outraged because they are on the receiving end.