Use bamboos. They grow faster.

Well, I wasn't going to go here, but, just like many native peoples in many countries are treated as second class citizens in their own lands, and, effectually, have fewer rights and less economic opportunity than their "conquerors", aren't individual humans likewise second class citizens, with fewer rights than and less economic opportunity compared to corporations?

> V.Kemp wrote:

> "I mean consider if an advanced, space-faring alien civilization..."

And you had to ask why nobody cares to talk to you. lol

Kemp,

Do people care to talk to this Stephen Hawkings, who brings up the issue as follows:

"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans,"

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/stephen-hawking-alien-contact-risky/story?id=10478157#.T5zIzsWRqMc

This may come as a surprise to you, xeno syndicated, but Stephen Hawking (no "s") is 37 trillion times smarter than you. When he makes a point by referencing "what would someone not born into these conventions think..." it's absolutely nothing like when you attempt it. That he can use the method insightfully does not make your attempts legitimate or not laughable.

I didn't have to read that far to know you'd go on to make bizarre statements which are irrelevant to the use of such a device to make a point. "omfg what if alien diseases killed 90% of human beings and they culturally subverted human beings into a second class..." blah blah blah irrelevant to the point you were making. You didn't just make the point that we should revisit our initial conceptions on the matter, you rambled about aliens. Stephen Hawking never forgets his own point.

Additionally, your opening post lacks any specifics. Do you mean natives who own their land to this day? Obviously, it's their land, and nobody should be allowed to steal from them. Do you mean natives deposed from their lands and the broader topic of restitution from profits made on those lands today?

Well that's interesting. Where do you mean? Which countries? Which native peoples? How long back into the past? Would you like to additionally discuss current aid programs--we could or could not consider them part of this restitution--and their effectiveness (as a criticism on their form[s])?

My point being that your thread is pointless. You started a thread without a topic. Then you referenced aliens. What do you expect.