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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by FroshKiller on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @07:24AM (#15182764)
The fruit of the Other's work--their research, their art, their innovations--is necessarily worth more than the Other's lives to the colonialist.

It's obvious that lives (and memory) are worth more to anyone with compassion who can recognize other people's humanity. That is only a debate and only interesting if you engage in it to remind someone with a colonialist mindset of their own shared humanity.

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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by weberc2 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:25AM (#15184395)
To be clear, if the OP proposed intervention to save lives, you would no less call him a colonialist.
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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by FroshKiller on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @11:28AM (#15184424)
Please don't put words in my mouth.
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Re:Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuous... by weberc2 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:19PM (#15185379)
That's a rich request in light of your previous comment.
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