07-03-2015, 03:17 AM
Surely laws should apply to everyone equally and not depend upon your heritage?
Forced to choose: heritage, or money?
I often wonder: suppose the protestors "win", such that the island is hostile to all "Western culture" (including tourism, the Walmart, EBT payments, national defense, etc). Are we to believe that these "neonatives" will reassemble into a pre-contact agrarian society which can sustain itself?
Yes, I'm being completely serious here: it would be (more likely: "is currently") very hypocritical of these protestors to reject a telescope as "desecration" while simultaneously spending their EBT at Walmart. They want their "sovereignty" so much, I say give it to them -- all of it.
Forced to choose: heritage, or money?
I often wonder: suppose the protestors "win", such that the island is hostile to all "Western culture" (including tourism, the Walmart, EBT payments, national defense, etc). Are we to believe that these "neonatives" will reassemble into a pre-contact agrarian society which can sustain itself?
Yes, I'm being completely serious here: it would be (more likely: "is currently") very hypocritical of these protestors to reject a telescope as "desecration" while simultaneously spending their EBT at Walmart. They want their "sovereignty" so much, I say give it to them -- all of it.