From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 17:57:50 MDT
In a message dated 6/5/02 14:34:23, mlorrey@datamann.com writes:
>Anava000@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Is there a nation or country that the white people have not come to,
>> taken the best land and resources and abused the indigeneous peoples?
>
>Is there any indigenous people which did not have far more heinous
>cultural practices of abuse and disrespect for individual rights than
>those expressed by white people?
Where is all this groupism coming from? Nobody's ethically responsible
for the deeds and misdeeds of people with vaguely similar skin color.
In terms of predictive power, skin color stinks - the Germans, who were
one of the worst but 60 years ago, are now paragons of good behavior.
What's relevant for determining whether the members a society are likely
to perform various heinous acts is apparently close to the question of
how close they are to Extropian principles. Open, growth-oriented,
pluralistic societies are well-behaved; closed, regressive, and monolithic
societies are frequently repressive and genocidal. Extropy saves lives!
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