@dangainor@FirstDoctor I have a sports car that I race. There is no health benefits to it as a matter of it would be considered a dangerous hobbie.
Will I stop because I understand that? No.
It enhances my life, and so the risk is worth it to me.
Have a good one.
Coward blocked me ... 😁
Modern history builds directly on Greco Roman foundations - law, philosophy, republicanism, engineering - that fueled the renaissance, enlightenment, and the industrial Revolution.
Pretending 1500 erases all that is again ... pure cope.
Transatlantic slave trade? Slavery was universal, Africans sold Africans, Arabs ran it for centuries.
Europe abolished it first. America's explosive growth came from European institutions, free labor, immigration, capitalism, and Northern industry - not Southern plantations. Post-1865, the U.S. boomed - without- slavery.
Your "necessity" narrative ignores the data: Western innovation and governance lifted the world. Facts over fiction.
Europeans built the modern world - Greece, Rome, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution. All on their own soil with their own brains.
They didn't "have to" beg non-Whites they conquered, settled, and innovated like every empire in history.
"Significant forced help" ... Cope.
Britain’s Industrial Revolution ran on British ingenuity. America rose on European institutions and settlers. Western Civ delivered the tech, medicine, and wealth lifting billions.
Africa? No wheel, limited writing, no scientific or industrial Revolution. European contact is what accelerated development.
Unfortunately for you, these are the facts.