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by otrahuevada 1597 days ago
Different legal systems codify different mores differently.

In Argentina and Chile, mapuche people to this day continue to legally challenge the ownership of land that they claim is theirs even after hundreds of years of having lost it to the genocide of their people -and dozens of others- as part of the creation of our nations.

In Uruguay, where I now live, this is very rarely still the case, mostly because the people who would have a right to challenge those lands ownership were very thoroughly murdered and their descendents have long been stripped of that right.

We're just not ok with brutalizing people as a business strategy. Like I said, it's a cultural thing.