HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debating the New World
Update: 2024-03-171
Description
Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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I feel like when comparing modern moral attitudes to this time you've been harsh to Spanish, as you should be, but not harsh to many Natives who performed human sacrifices (which you mentioned without much judgement, it seems to me) and regurarly engaged in horrible warfare. Imagine if there was a country today that killed childremn for a good harvest. I imagine it would be sanctioned and probably invaded.