On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]>
wrote:


> ​> ​
> In realty, 16th century Spaniards couldn't give a rat's ass about human
> rights.
>

​True without the slightest doubt.​



> ​> ​
> It's just that the Aztecs were worshiping the wrong deity
>

​Also true.​


​>  ​
> ​t​hey could have respected the historical and anthropological value of
> Aztec temples, instead of burning everything down to extract the gold


​They could have, but to respect something it must be respectable and I
guess the Spaniards didn't find human sacrifice to be respectable. ​


​> ​
> there was no Nazi culture.


​Don't be silly, they had customs and social institutions so of course
there was a Nazi culture, a malignant culture but a culture nevertheless.
What the Nazi's lacked wasn't culture but civilization.


> ​> ​
> What I am saying is that you cannot bomb a population into reason
>

​But you should be able

​to ​say a population is acting moronically if that population is acting
moronically.

 John K Clark

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