Re: Merciless Indian savages

On Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:02:35 -0500, Dawn Flood
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On 8/22/2026 12:34 PM, Ted wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:24:54 -0400, David Canzi <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Last month I saw a YouTube video that said the Declaration of
>>> independence mentions "merciless Indian savages".  I looked
>>> up the DoI for more detail.  This is what I found:
>>>
>>> "He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has
>>> endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the
>>> merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an
>>> undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions."
>>>
>>> In these words I can see evidence of what had already happened
>>> and the premonition of what was to come.  There was no need for
>>> the King of England to do anything to rouse the natives against
>>> the settlers.  That hostility was already there, because the
>>> settlers had already invaded land and killed or forcibly displaced
>>> the people who lived there.  These words from the Declaration of
>>> Independence show that the men who wrote them intended for that
>>> process to continue.
>>>
>>> The West was won by invading, killing, and displacing people.
>>>
>>> Kind of similar to what's happening today in the West Bank.
>> 
>> 
>> Same thing happened everywhere, throughout all of history and
>> prehistory. Your point?
>
>Yep.  The two atomic bombs dropped onto Japan were also merciless.


They prevented more deaths than they caused. Surely you must know
that. A conventional invasion of Japan would have been much more
bloody.