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Originally Posted by analog
Practically every land that's ever been inhabited by any human, anywhere, has been taken by someone else, and pretty much exclusively by force. All animals do the same. Native American Indians also took, by force, each other's lands and resources. No one is any different than anyone else. So blame the europeans all you like, but no culture is innocent of acquiring lands through force, most especially the further back in history you go.
Or if you're going to nitpick, don't forget Hitler, Napolean, every leader/military commander of the Roman Empire (Hannibal, etc), the Roman Catholic Church, probably every Pharaoh of Egypt, Ghengis Khan, Attila the Hun... ... ... ...
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Thanks for pointing that out. I'm not playing the blame game. Maybe it's poor word choice on my part so I'll say it again: the idea of claiming what isn't yours is wrong. He was talking about the Europeans so I was focusing on just that.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Only an idiot would buy land on the moon. Mars, on the other hand....
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He's got 2 and 1 dead President of the US buying from him.... 
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Last edited by KellyC; 04-10-2007 at 09:35 PM..
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