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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps not, but it's a very long leap indeed from there to the suggestion that not one person who has ever wanted to help what they considered to be a less civilised people has ever done so because they considered it a moral or charitable act.
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It's a huge leap, in fact. One that I have not made (nor would I). I'm merely suggesting that not all work done under the aegis of "mission" is charitable. Some is done with assimilation and subjugation in mind.