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Old 06-01-2021, 10:48 PM   #300
BoLevi
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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon View Post
pointing a gun to some ones head and getting them to sign over their stuff to you is still theft
So they lost a war?

Which is it?

Also, land isn't the same as someone's "stuff". The population of north america before the europeans arrived was a few million people. The highest estimate for ALL of the Americas that I could find was 60 million people. The lowest was 8 million people. That's a population density of .2 to 1.4 people per square kilometer. The US nowadays is something like 35. Canada was even more sparsely populated than that.

So we've got relatively nomadic people wandering around a huge swath of land, with an ultra-low population density. That does not make a strong case for "ownership" of that land, nor does it make a strong case that a nation exists as we would understand them today, or historically.

So I don't agree with your premise regarding theft.

The strongest possible word you should use is "displaced"...but that's also a bit of stretch also given the scarcity of the population.
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