Re: Physicist Robert Bacher Dies at 99!
From: Sander Vesik (sander_at_haldjas.folklore.ee)
Date: 11/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:42:41 +0000 (UTC)
In sci.space.policy Rand Simberg <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote:
>
> That it's meaningless to say that we *stole* it from them. We
> committed some regrettable crimes against them, including the
> occasional mass murder, but taking their land, which even they didn't
> consider theirs, isn't one of them, and they were hardly innocent
> themselves.
Thats basicly untrue, which is (among many other examples) well
demonstrated by the intertribe wars and conflicts and why these
happened.
Of course, some amount of the "stealing" was more conquest, mixed
in with betraying (and rounding up and sending off to concentration
camps) of ones allies.
-- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++
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