[–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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The European colonial project that built the US killed literally hundreds of millions of people in the US alone

Your source places the highest estimates for a north American population at seven million. Most likely it was half that. "Hundreds of millions of people in the US alone" is what I am contesting.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    So called ethical treatment impacts the speed and scope of research that can be done, and in doing so delays or prevents the benefits of conducting that research. That means that people who could be saved by animal tested medicines instead die in the time taken to find an alternative.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The entire population of North and South America at the start of that project did not exceed a hundred million, and the vast majority of it was in central and southern America. There were not hundreds of millions of people in the US to kill.

    Very possibly, every native American living within the modern borders of the US from 1400 to today might have totalled a hundred million, but the colonial project didn't kill literally every one of them.

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