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Bartolome de Las Casas | A Discussion on a Man Before His Time

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Is There Justification for War?

He goes through seven illegitimate titles to war that were being proposed. He rejects the sins of the infidels, riling and cannibalism as just cause for war. Then he considers to defend the innocent against tyranny - which is a key issue in contemporary debate. But when he actually speaks on the actual practice of spaniards, he's like this is not what they were doing.

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