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Originally Posted by Jenny_Lyte
They lived in a peaceful coexistence with the world around them. It could be argued, and rightfully so, that they almost lived like animals.
Fast forward to 2008. Over population, global warming, violence, etc. These were not problems of these "savages" these problems are the result of this "civilized" Western way of thinking.
Keeping all that in mind, I ask you: Who's really of inferior intelligence?
Again, I apologize to anyone I have offended. Just something to think about is all.
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While I agree that some of the people of the more "primitive" parts of the world have not destroyed their environment nor created many of the problems of the modern world, the fact is that many have utterly wrecked their own environments and many live in utterly murderous societies that can hardly be held up as paragons of virtue.
The Easter Islanders, for instance, destroyed their own society by using up all the trees on their island, and ended up reverting to a more primitive and poorer society. They manufactured and experienced their own man-made environmental disaster and were certainly not the only tribes to have done so.
The Yanomamo Indians of South America are incredibly violent, and death from the hands of another is expected. The Mojave Indians considered 30% casulaties to be normal and the Mae Enga tribe of New Guinea experienced 40% losses.
Many, if not most, hunter-gatherer societies were every bit as nasty and cruel and as stupid as modern societies.