(November 6, 2015 at 4:08 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(November 2, 2015 at 9:23 am)ChadWooters Wrote: If those other counties had had the means they'd have done the same or worse to the West. No one is innocent. Many of those cultures were brutalizing each other long before Europeans came along. The Sioux fought the Cherakee. The Navaho fought the Apatche. Winners aren't always bad and losers aren't all saints.
There is a difference between tribal disputes and European colonization and the genocide and veritable extinction of some of the most advanced civilizations in the Mexica and Inca.
This implies that all there is to compare European colonization to is tribal "disputes" The difference between tribal war and European war at that time would have been the technology.
It would be difficult to argue that if the warrriors of a tribe had weaponss that could defeat machine guns and superior ocean faring technology they would have stopped after killing Europeans after a a certain number had died based on moral grounds.
The intention behind was is the same reguardless of if you call it a "dispute" or "colonization".
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