Lazy? What would have been a non-lazy alternative approach given the time period and location? This whole Atlantic slave trade thing kicked off in the 1500s.
And you deciding to avoid black tar heroin isn't really an accurate analogy. That would cause direct harm to YOU, not your descendants hundreds of years from now. Who knows what perfectly acceptable things you're doing today will be judged to be abhorrent by your great great great great grandchildren?
Look, they were super racist and didn’t want their children to mix with black people right? Well what did they think would eventually happen if they imported millions of black people? Again, it’s laziness. It’s like getting drunk every night to make life easier whereas you really should sit down and budget.
The Greeks had invented a proto steam engine and thought it was no more than a toy because they couldn’t conceive of using anything but slaves to do labor. Same shit. Slavery halts societal advancement and causes more problems down the road than it solves today.
Well, the Greeks also didn't have the advanced metallurgy and precision machining necessary to make an actual functioning steam engine, either. The ability to harness pressurized steam is only one small part of the overall picture. You might as well say "they clearly knew about the sun, so why no solar panel arrays??"
Again, you're using the benefit of centuries of hindsight to assume that folks in those days were simply too daft and lazy to see what is so clearly obvious to you only a few hundred years later.
How about this: they had horses. Raw mechanical power was there. Just need to be smart and out it to use. Even woodworking is good enough. Nope. Need to enslave people. It’s the only way. See what I mean?
Lazy? What would have been a non-lazy alternative approach given the time period and location? This whole Atlantic slave trade thing kicked off in the 1500s.
And you deciding to avoid black tar heroin isn't really an accurate analogy. That would cause direct harm to YOU, not your descendants hundreds of years from now. Who knows what perfectly acceptable things you're doing today will be judged to be abhorrent by your great great great great grandchildren?
Look, they were super racist and didn’t want their children to mix with black people right? Well what did they think would eventually happen if they imported millions of black people? Again, it’s laziness. It’s like getting drunk every night to make life easier whereas you really should sit down and budget.
The Greeks had invented a proto steam engine and thought it was no more than a toy because they couldn’t conceive of using anything but slaves to do labor. Same shit. Slavery halts societal advancement and causes more problems down the road than it solves today.
Well, the Greeks also didn't have the advanced metallurgy and precision machining necessary to make an actual functioning steam engine, either. The ability to harness pressurized steam is only one small part of the overall picture. You might as well say "they clearly knew about the sun, so why no solar panel arrays??"
Again, you're using the benefit of centuries of hindsight to assume that folks in those days were simply too daft and lazy to see what is so clearly obvious to you only a few hundred years later.
How about this: they had horses. Raw mechanical power was there. Just need to be smart and out it to use. Even woodworking is good enough. Nope. Need to enslave people. It’s the only way. See what I mean?