11-03-2015, 08:47 AM
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Originally posted by Punatic007
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Originally posted by Bullwinkle
From my days as a cultural anthropology student - I remember lectures stressing ritual cannibalism was practiced to absorb the Mana - not so much to gain the power of the diseased - but to prevent the spirit of the slain warrior from continuing the battle from beyond the hereafter
north american indians dismembered the bodies of their slain enemies for the same reason - reinforcing the immigrants flawed belief system that indians were barbaric cultures fit for extermination
Regarding you last paragraph/sentence, we have too many historical accounts of enough predatory Indian tribes with an agenda of exterminating the settlers to keep perpetuating the blaming the white man syndrome ad nauseum. No one was safe, what was done was defensive, period. Good God let it go, you weren't even there.
So fighting off an invading population, who crossed a vast ocean to move onto your land is not defensive, but the killing of the people who were already there by the invaders is defensive action?
You have really weird logic. If the reverse had been true, and hoards of people from the Americas had travelled to Europe, moved onto European lands, and then tried to kill as many of the Europeans as possible who defended their lands, would you still say that was a defensive action?