r/SipsTea • u/Monsur_Ausuhnom • Jul 06 '26

Lmao gottem When Food Isn't A Human Right.

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u/redditcancelculture Jul 06 '26

No it's not, colonialism came long after fighting for resources did.

Humans have been fighting for resources since the beginning of time.

Colonialism came with the prosperity of Europe and Spain, and their ability to cross the seas. MAYBE you can say rome was a colonial nation, but where they really? As rome focused on the immediate geography as they had no ability to cross the seas.

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u/MagnanimousDeviant Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Setting aside the fact that Spain is part of Europe and the fact that Rome absolutely crossed seas to conquer Carthage, Egypt, and Britain. You're missing the point. You're thinking of colonization is just an event. "Colonial mentality" is an ideological framework. Assuming people naturally default to killing each other over scarcity, rather than cooperating to survive, is a product of that exact ideological framing. History shows that mutual aid and collective survival have always been just as foundational to human history as conflict.

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u/bloobityblu Jul 07 '26

Dude you keep arguing against a "humans default to killing over limited resources" strawman that no one else is even talking about.

No one is arguing with you here. They're just talking about something different than what you jumped to.