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> If you think hunting indian men, women and children and killing them and selling their scalps for money gives you no context for judgment, then there is somet
by dasil003 12y ago
> If you think hunting indian men, women and children and killing them and selling their scalps for money gives you no context for judgment, then there is something wrong with you.
All the rest are good points, but this is an emotional non-sequitur. The reason we don't have context to judge is because we live lives of comfort today, we have no idea what it was like to move into the Wild West and the danger and hardship that entailed.
Of course I agree genocide is bad, that doesn't make me equipped to judge people who lived 200 years ago based on hazy historical generalities.
- iaejpiejf23 12y ago> we have no idea what it was like to move into the Wild West and the danger and hardship that entailed. We have some idea, but what's your point? Because life is difficult, let's kill a bunch of indian men,women and children and scalp them for money? Using your argument, we don't know the hardships the germans and the nazis went through either, so we can't judge their actions. Do you see how retarded you sound?
- dasil003 12y agoOkay, let's just sit here and impotently judge and condemn them to satisfy our own sense of moral superiority. I'm sure there will be no shortage of moral condemnation of our current worldview in another 200 years.