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Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead by Frondo on Thursday August 09, 2018 @08:44AM (#17723699)
"when the buffalo herds died off" -- when they were slaughtered almost to extinction, in large part to decimate the Indians who relied on them for food.

Check out the size of this pile of buffalo skulls, to get a sense of the scale of destruction we did:

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/bison-skulls-pile-used-fert...

Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead by deadmetheny on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:29AM (#17723983)
>we

I did nothing of the sort, thank you very much.

Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead by titzer on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:08AM (#17724297)
See this a lot. Well if you really take it as a personal affront that many frontiersmen did this...please also refrain from taking credit for any collective positive accomplishment of humanity, like the US constitution, ending slavery, or more generally Science, computers, jeans, or bubble gum. If you wanna stick to the things that you personally did, by all means.
Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead by deadmetheny on Thursday August 09, 2018 @10:56AM (#17724698)
Why would I claim a hand in the creation of any of that? Using things others have built is not 'taking credit'. It's perfectly possible to acknowledge the evils of our ancestors without having to personally feel bad for it because none of us did it and have no reason to feel guilt for it. Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex.
Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead by titzer on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:53AM (#17725261)
> Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex.

This just not what anyone wants to see here at HN. No one personally attacked you, yet you feel compelled to spew anger. That's just not our culture. There are other places for shitposting.

Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead by Frondo on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:05PM (#17734553)
"Kindly fuck off with your guilt complex."

Ah, men, the logical gender, the rational ones, and certainly never given to fits of emotion.

Re:Half of the Great Barrier Reef Is Dead by stukh on Thursday August 09, 2018 @08:51AM (#17723741)
I didn’t mean to give the impression that the herds died off naturally or died off due to hunting by Native Americans.