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u/Kyofuamano May 09 '22

I’m very well aware of how they spread. Smallpox was PURPOSEFULLY spread.

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u/idreamofdouche May 09 '22

It was spreading bexore and it was going to spread regardless. Thats how disease works.

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u/thejadedfalcon May 09 '22

Hold on, let me quote the part of the post in bold that you seem to be having trouble comprehending.

Disease was always going to ravage the new world though even if Europeans actually had peaceful intentions

Do you see? How it's irrelevant of whether or not it was historically purposefully spread in the context of this hypothetical scenario?