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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (22124)8/15/2001 1:50:32 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
There were other instances in
which extermination was not the intent and yet the native population dropped
90+% because of disease.

This matches my understanding. In some cases, extermination was the opposite of what was desired, particularly in areas where capture and export of slaves, or using natives to run tea plantations or for other work, was profitable, so unnecessary deaths were economically disadvantageous.

Now, of course, there are other instances like Rome-Carthage where the destruction of the population was very much the point.
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