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I don’t know, killing all but a handful of 30 million wild animals is pretty damn evil. Especially since they just killed them and left them to rot.
by huytersd 3y ago
I don’t know, killing all but a handful of 30 million wild animals is pretty damn evil. Especially since they just killed them and left them to rot.
- throwaway74432 3y agoThat's the power of only seeing one story, minus context of what the rest of the world was like. Would you also call the history of what native american tribes did to each other evil? Or was it on par with the brutality of the times?
- causal 3y agoI don't think you are arguing in good faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
- throwaway74432 3y agoYou're misusing that fallacy here, but I don't fault you, because my point is subtle. My claim isn't that their point is invalid because they're hypocritical about native american history, my claim is that their gauge of evil is miscalibrated, because only a certain perspective of history is amplified to this degree, minus the historical context that puts it on par with the times.
- huytersd 3y agoThey did regular brutality. Attack another tribe, kill like 5% of them, rape etc. everyone did that. No one really wiped out entire species.
- throwaway74432 3y ago>No one really wiped out entire species. Overkill Hypothesis[1] 1. https://people.wou.edu/~vanstem/391.W12/Overkill%20Hypoth.pdf https://people.wou.edu/~vanstem/391.W12/Overkill%20Hypoth.pd...
- huytersd 3y agoThis isn’t a hypothesis. This is a well documented event.
- throwaway74432 3y agoThe evidence of the overkill hypothesis stands against your lack of evidence that it never happened before.
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoGoing out of your way to indirectly genocide a people through starvation sounds pretty evil.
- dylan604 3y agoWhat about killing all but a handful of mosquitoes, fire ants, or other insects? I might suggest we stopped too soon
- huytersd 3y agoWhy not bacteria? We can kill those by the trillions.