I've made no normative arguments here. To amend yours, one such normative claim might be: "Since all of these other groups managed to unbend themselves when th

I've made no normative arguments here. To amend yours, one such normative claim might be: "Since all of these other groups managed to unbend themselves when the economic factors were right, we (society as a whole/at large) should figure out how the groups (or treatment thereof) which didn't unbend themselves differ from those that did."