lol. You got it right.
Thank you-it just makes sense, based on human nature and historical facts-when it came to conquest and colonization, the Europeans weren’t any less bloody or cruel than the Native Americans-they were just a bit more subtle and refined-they practiced slavery on a grander scale than Native American tribes did, they tortured and murdered people for any of a dozen reasons-they just did it in dungeons in seclusion instead of in public-outside on a slab at a pyramid-it was just a brutal time in history, all about taking treasure from conquered and enslaved people, murder, rape and pillage, etc and no one had clean hands or altruistic motives-some people have a lot of trouble accepting that we were all total savages at some point in rather recent history-
I guess those same people think Rome had more noble motives than the tribes/groups of people in the rest of Italy, in Spain, France, parts of what is now Germany, Britain, Egypt, etc when they defeated them in battle with superior weapons, enslaved them, raped women, stole treasure-were horrified by their bloody punishments/human sacrifices and called them savages-then those civilized Romans kept them as slaves, sent them to the arena to fight for their lives/be killed as gladiators, be attacked and killed by wild animals for every minor thing-like having a different religion, being non-Roman, etc-for the entertainment of thousands of gleefully howling spectators-kind of like those fatal basketball games and other sacrifices going on in the Americas. Bread and circuses was/is the same everywhere...