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As far as your fishing example, being grateful DOES have everything to with it. Also, not taking more than is needed, being sustainable. You think you are better than Native American people from 1000 years ago because you can exploit for profit? Do you honestly think they had no ability to exploit if the desire was there? Goddamn exceptionalism is thick in here. You can’t even fathom a world without profit because you are so fucking indoctrinated. Pull your finger out of your ass.

MoMeezy ϟ 𓅦 ₿ 7mo ago

Being grateful when being sustainable is good. But driving up to a whale in a motor boat, spearing it with a spear, and then shooting it with a 50 cal, or netting a whole river of salmon is either wrong or not. Being grateful and performing a ritual afterwords does not undo that.

I didn’t say anything about being better now. I am saying that being less technologically advanced means they were more limited in thier ability to do harm. They did “exploit”. Just not as effectively. That is what technology enables. They didn’t have the technology to do the wrongs that we have today.

Native Americans are just as susceptible to moral failure as anyone else.

We aren’t better. We are the same.

Our moral progress has not kept up with our technological or economic progress. That is a moral failng, not a technological or economic one.

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BlueDuckBTC 7mo ago

I agree with your first paragraph.

Second paragraph is pure speculation based on your psychology and experiences…hence why I said you have a bad case of “exceptionalism”.

Yes Native Americans were/are susceptible to immoral behavior…although they were all but completely victims to irradiation and assimilation by capitalists.

Agree wholeheartedly with last paragraph, but you do still fail to see that capitalism is derived from and a means to the worst of our immoral abilities.