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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Spike: [QB] [QUOTE]Q: Should a ship have been named after Cortez, considering what effect his arrival had on the native Americans? A: If Cortez had NOT landed in northern Mexico, do you think it would have remained undiscovered until now? Fact #1: somebody was bound to discover the Americas. Fact #2: any sufficiently advanced civilization or culture will inevitably attempt to exploit any civilization or culture not sufficiently advanced to fight back on a level playing field. Blaming explorers for exploring has always seemed to me really kind of silly; do people *really* think that if Columbus hadn't landed here, it'd be 1994 and we still wouldn't know the world was round and that this continent was here? It doesn't matter who discovered it, the same result would've come. Somebody had to discover it sooner or later.[/QUOTE]That's JMS's explanation why he named an Earth vessel after Cortez on "Babylon 5". [/QB][/QUOTE]
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