RE: In light of this past Columbus day
October 11, 2012 at 9:27 am
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2012 at 9:32 am by Anomalocaris.)
It's nice that you indignantly refuse to credit the person from whom you benefited so much. Your indignation would count nearly as much as the the much more justifiable annoyance of the indians who are about to be overrun by the spaniards.
The good that came out of the Colombian exchange dwarfs the harm. The concept of right is trivially insignificant when a society is so unable to defend it itself or gather the allies needed to defend it. Ultimately whether a right has a "right" to exist depends on whether it could be defended. If it could not, then it is vapor, a trivial wishthinking assertion signifying nothing.
The good that came out of the Colombian exchange dwarfs the harm. The concept of right is trivially insignificant when a society is so unable to defend it itself or gather the allies needed to defend it. Ultimately whether a right has a "right" to exist depends on whether it could be defended. If it could not, then it is vapor, a trivial wishthinking assertion signifying nothing.
