bulletproofmanners

t1_izr1f77 wrote

Your link states it was contrary to their culture to conquer for territory. Was the original point? Why do I think they started women as property? Maybe the Europeans were so deranged from centuries of genocide they tried to brainwash the natives using coercion and threats, the natives felt they had no option?

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t1_izqyre8 wrote

I don’t. But you can provide a link to prove me wrong. Make sure you show me how they would take away whole territories from losing tribes, put them in reservations and try to convert them. Also, a link on how these tribes would sale to Europe to colonize European territories too.

From your link: “The fighting of a war to conquer enemy territory was not only beyond the resources of any of these Aboriginal groupings, it was contrary to a culture that was based on spiritual connections to a specific territory. “

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t1_izqqqd1 wrote

I love that classic argument, it allows for legitimacy of English people to sail over, conquer, capitalize and constrain the Aboriginals because they must have done so too. But it doesn’t work the other way, if the Aboriginals get armed, fight, push off the current European descendent inhabitants, no one will accept, “well almost all land on this Earth was conquered, they conquered us, I guess we have to accept it now”. Because something might have happened in the past, which is a big claim without evidence, there is no moral argument to do an unjust act.

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