[moldbug]

Almost all my relatives are dead. Including all who remember the Jackson administration.

Some of them died justly, others not. I'm not an Albanian and have no interest in investing emotional energy in multi-generational blood feuds. Eg, some of my relatives were killed by the Germans, who make a really fine motorcycle.

Also, life was pretty cheap before the 20th century. It's easy to appall kids these days with the death rate among chained slaves crossing the Atlantic. In fact the death rate among Europeans voluntarily crossing the Atlantic was quite similar. It also wasn't easy or safe to walk across half of North America, whether voluntarily or not. Basically, to anyone who lived in this era - regardless of race, color or creed - we're all a bunch of whining pussies.

Really the main difference between the expulsion of the Cherokees and my proposed ethnic cleansing of the Palo Alto patent lawyers is that the Cherokees didn't deserve it, whereas the patent lawyers do. Lawless force can work good as well as evil. And when we've already left law behind, what's the alternative?