eameece
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Just because others did it too, does not excuse what Columbus did. And he started it.
toldailytopic: Columbus: good guy or bad guy?
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Just because others did it too, does not excuse what Columbus did. And he started it.
Well said. :up:
Always looking at the glass half empty eh?Unfortunately that would have also led to cigarettes.....
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Arthur Brain
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The Berean
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I'd be more impressed if he used his own money and not spent "government money" like a good :Commie: . :think: Seriously, though, I do agree with your post.
I don't know enough about him; this is a question that never crossed my mind, I am surprised it has been asked.
some other dude
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Why hold Columbus to a higher standard than the natives he encountered? :idunno:
Have you ever seen Apocalypto?
some other dude
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some other dude
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So Columbus was an early form of welfare queen, living off the government dole? :think:
Newman
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Nice run-on sentence, O ye King of Grammar and Spelling.
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Here's a question.
Are Native Americans, as a whole, better off both today and since, for the contact they had with Europeans? Or would they have been better off never having meet any non-Americans at all?
Here's a question.
Are Native Americans, as a whole, better off both today and since, for the contact they had with Europeans? Or would they have been better off never having meet any non-Americans at all?
lightbringer
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Never meeting non-Americans.
good question
bad answer
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Lightbringer's not thinking, he's emoting. :chuckle:
Thing is, it could have been a whole lot better for Native Americans than it was...by a really wide margin...seriously...really, really wide...but it was still better for Native Americans to have gone through everything they have since than having never met Europeans.
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Well, probably. I mean, we can't know exactly what they otherwise would have gone through. But much more than likely.
I was watching a show from the heathen. They were condesending (as usual) about how he was looking for Eden on his way to the far east. All the more reason to like the guy.
