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<blockquote data-quote="Sanguinarious" data-source="post: 8804227" data-attributes="member: 7038247">Wow, this conversation is getting... Interesting. Better get in before it gets locked.The whole 'kill them all and take their stuff' thing has been humanity's default mode for most of human history. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who I admire and follow, just got dragged, justly, for slamming on European (white) culture when he said ''European history is basically 'Is that yours? It's ours now! ' ''Yes, there's a lot of truth there. It's also true that was Mongolian history, it was also Egyptian history,&nbsp; it was Persian history,&nbsp; it was Bantu history, it was Aztec history,&nbsp; it's Chinese culture today.The world's major religions were based on the&nbsp; ''It's ours now! '' model, ask the Canaanites or the Amelikites about that if you can find any.So the kill them all and take their stuff model may be evil,&nbsp; but that means for most of recorded&nbsp; history most of humanity was evil.But we can choose to change.&nbsp; Ever see the original trek ep &quot;A taste of Armageddon?&quot;&nbsp; All it takes is one simple statement. ''I will not murder today. ''</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sanguinarious, post: 8804227, member: 7038247"] Wow, this conversation is getting... Interesting. Better get in before it gets locked. The whole 'kill them all and take their stuff' thing has been humanity's default mode for most of human history. Neil DeGrasse Tyson, who I admire and follow, just got dragged, justly, for slamming on European (white) culture when he said ''European history is basically 'Is that yours? It's ours now! ' '' Yes, there's a lot of truth there. It's also true that was Mongolian history, it was also Egyptian history, it was Persian history, it was Bantu history, it was Aztec history, it's Chinese culture today. The world's major religions were based on the ''It's ours now! '' model, ask the Canaanites or the Amelikites about that if you can find any. So the kill them all and take their stuff model may be evil, but that means for most of recorded history most of humanity was evil. But we can choose to change. Ever see the original trek ep "A taste of Armageddon?" All it takes is one simple statement. ''I will not murder today. '' [/QUOTE]

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