(October 11, 2012 at 9:27 am)Chuck Wrote: 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.
I DID give him credit ONLY for what he deserved credit for. What I refuse to do is worship him like a god as if nothing bad ever resulted from what he did. He was a map maker NOTHING MORE!
I give credit to Thomas Jefferson too, BUT HE STILL OWNED OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.
I give credit to Einstein for E=MC2 BUT because of the inventions of nuclear weapons we still have to deal with countries like North Korea and Iran.
HISTORY is never a fucking halmark card so stop trying to paint it as such.
Columbus does not pay my fucking bills right now nor is he alive to lend support to Malala. And if he had discovered Pakistan instead of the Americas it would be higlely likely Malala wouldn't be arround to stand up to bullies.
