How about was the nuclear bombing of Japan justified?

How about circumcision?

As I was waiting for my flu shot, my wife and I had a conversation with an elderly couple. They said they were worried about getting their shot because their daughter was an anti-VAXer and had them worried.

I asked them if they had their polio shot when it first came out. Of course they said best thing ever. I asked if they ever had a lock-jaw shot or any other injections to prevent diseases. They admitted they had. I asked them if they had their daughter vaccinated for measles and polio. Of course they said.

I just gave them a , "O.K. - think about that" look and let it sink in.

Which, believe it or not, is a huge contingent in parts of New Jersey and New York.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/herpes-babies-jewish-circumcision-ritual-link-rabbis-infants-a7620446.html

Herpes cases among babies linked to ultra-Orthodox Jewish circumcision ritual

New York health department alerts doctors to infections linked to ancient ritual in which circumcision wound is cleaned by mouth

Traditional threads.

and colonialism in this country.

Leif Eriksson who said "Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there."

They assimilated, they died, or they sailed off again.

They didn't bring guns, deadly diseases, and violent imperialistic Christianity with them.

Christian imperialists aggressively destroyed the "pagan" histories of anyone who came before them.