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ffsm8last Monday at 9:36 AM3 repliesview on HN

It's really not sane to do so, today.

You're literally applying birth sin for it to make sense, because none of the Spanish people alive today had anything to do with it

Even worse, what hnidiots3 was trying to convey: 99% of the population that were alive during the time period you'd have described as "Spaniards" were entirely uninvolved in these actions, and wouldn't have supported them either, likely.

While the Mayan culture was literally doing human sacrifices - the average person living in Spain wasn't inherently evil and wanting to cause suffering to other people. Despite their culture being kinda shit.

They just wanted to live their live, which was mostly being a farmer and working.


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vacuitylast Monday at 8:41 PM

Are you saying that the average person in Spain did not support colonialism (let's suppose after the benefits of colonialism became apparent)? Would they be horrified that Spaniards had killed "barbarians" and "savages" (as they were described) and gained great riches? Other people have brought up religion; how many Christians condemned the Crusades?

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jacoboluslast Monday at 9:43 AM

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