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      1 year ago

      We aren’t, not most of us. The conquistadors were bottom of the barrel scum who risked all they had in order to get rich as quickly as possible with the only oversight of some clerics who told them the savages had no soul and could be treated like cattle… and the ones who told them otherwise, were sent away. By the time word got back to the mainland, decades had passed already.