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Originally Posted by crucifissio
1) being more powerful does not give you the right to steal and enslave
2) people in africa are under no obligation whatsoever to compete with the west or anybody else...freedom entails being able to live your life freely and as you see fit...if they want to live as nomads it is their right
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I will agree with you on the first point - it doesn't give the right, but people have been doing it since the first cave got taken over by someone else, but it was happening in Africa for thousands of years before the white man even knew it was there. The only difference is when the white man came, he was MUCH more powerful and it was guns vs spears.
I will completely agree with you on the second point - it is not said that what we view as some super backwards people living in huts made of mud and shit in a desert aren't happier then us - they very may well be. I have tons of stress from life and business, maybe they fuck all day, then go lion hunting and feel like real men, it might be a great life. On the other hand, it's also entirely possible that if it wasn't for agricultural advances like irrigation and other farming methods brought by the white invaders that 90% of those people wouldn't have died of starvation due to droughts and whatnot. Imagine if they didn't have the invention of the plow? Making farming easier and more productive allowed population to grow.