If cancer is such a bad thing, then is Wayne Ford (serial killer) a hero for chopping off women’s breasts thereby preventing breast cancer? Context dear fellow. Let’s just avoid a side bar into history and say Columbus brought diversity to the Americas- but.... there are other ways to do it that don’t involve genocide, plunder, rape, and murder. The world would be a very different place of WW2 never happened. For many- worse. And likely without the knowledge and technology developed for war or from horrific human experiments. We can acknowledge that Hitler played a hand in creating the modern economic and global power of today’s Germany or America even- without saying he should be celebrated for it. Unless one subscribes to a narrow minded philosophy that ends justify means- how we get results matters, and usually there are more ways than one to go about it.
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I don't think I understand what you're getting at.
The clearest I can put it, I think, I already did. We could say that yes, Columbus helped bring diversity to the Americas, but that doesn’t mean that the WAY he did it was the right way to do it. If you tell the doctor you have a splinter in your finger that hurts, and the doctor cuts off your arm- we could say that they relieved the symptom you were complaining about. You would still probably rather they had just taken the splinter out with tweezers than chop off an arm right?
So the question of wether we can say Columbus brought needed diversity to the Americas is a loaded question- either intentionally or unintentionally because Columbus also brought death and suffering and stole from the natives.
The modern world we live in wouldn’t exist if those things didn’t happen. Hundreds of millions of Americans wouldn’t have the lives they do. So in that way- for most Americans, it was a “good thing” in the end- but bad things were done to get us here and there’s no reason they HAD to be.
Seems like a baiting headline.
I would argue that there's nothing wrong with being 94% white, as long as that 6% are treated/respected just as well as the majority.
I suspect the article itself goes more into the reality of that... But that isn't exactly click bait, is it
Well... I can tell you this: when it comes to "stagnant population growth", you'd think that no sales tax and no income tax would be a huge draw. Sadly, the absurd property tax kinda kills it.
I would argue that there's nothing wrong with being 94% white, as long as that 6% are treated/respected just as well as the majority.
I suspect the article itself goes more into the reality of that... But that isn't exactly click bait, is it