(October 11, 2012 at 9:50 am)Chuck Wrote: Columbus may not be paying your bills, but the fact that you actually live in an advanced economy where you have any money to pay your bills at all,or indeed actually have had enough to eat all your life,is very likely thanks in large part to the consequences of the invasion, made possible by Columbus, that you revile.
Do some real research on the full impact of the invasion as it has developed in the last 500 years, how the invasion promoted trade, communication, the massive impetus it gave to agricultural progress, its vital role in growth of economies with capital to invest in it's own advancement, instead of dwelling in some airy flakiland of shallow morality.
Columban exchange was initally very hard on the Indians. But it laid the foundation for a fundamentally better and more progressive world that would probably carry on benefiting mankind the entire rest of humanity's tenure on earth, and whose benefits would ultimately be enjoyed by the descendants of the same indians as well. no contest.
Bullshit it did. If what he did was fostering good treatment then why did the contenent get invaded and Natives chased of their land and or murderd for their land?
You still miss my point every single time.. Humans are not a utopia nor do we always do good things even if we do some good things. Good people can do bad things and bad people can do good things.
You are tying to make history into a Halmark card and life is NEVER black and white. Columbus got way more credit than he deserved. He opened the gates to Europe to do harm to the inabitiants of the Americas who were almost wiped off the planet.
I am not forgetting that what is now is built off the past, you are pretending that the past was always rosey. It was good for some and bad for others. Columbus was merely a map maker and that is ALL he deserves credit for.
