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Originally Posted by Twoller
You can argue all day long about what the native Americans deserve based on their own culture. But in the end, you are up against the grim reality that native americans have had their land forced from them. It doesn't matter that native Americans have suffered the same inadequacies that cultures tend to suffer from. They deserved to own and be identified with the land they were found on. If anything is to be disputed, it is which native Americans are entitled to which land so far after the fact.
The Aztecs were a bloody, inhuman empire. Does that mean they deserved to be exterminated as a culture? Didn't they deserve a chance to see what the rest of the world was like and confront their own inadequacies in the face of new knowledge about their own and other human existance? Didn't they deserve their own land? Where else would they be expected to go?
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The Aztecs were a bloody, inhuman empire. Does that mean they deserved to be exterminated as a culture?
Well yes, actually. That's precisely what it means.
The Aztecs were defeated by a coalition of Spanish adventurers and local Indian tribes that had been subjugated and enslaved by Aztec domination. The Spanish could never have defeated the Aztecs' teeming millions without the help of hundreds of thousands of Indians who jumped at the chance to resist Aztec tyranny.
The Aztec ruling class collected tribute from their subject tribes, including children to be used in religious rituals of human sacrifice and to be eaten as food. You think they had a "right" to do this?
Yes the native Americans were treated badly by conquering Spanards 500 years ago. None of us is responsible for that. None of that will change if what's left of the American people surrender.
You seem to have a problem with destroying bloody inhuman cultures. Why?
If it's wrong to destroy a bloody inhuman culture like the Aztecs, does not the same apply to the Mexicans' attempt to destroy American culture, with is not bloody and inhuman?