Are you willing to overlook all the genocides perpetrated by Columbus and his followers in the name of religion and glory?
If Columbus had the courage to sail off into relatively uncharged waters, it was for greed. He just wanted to find a quicker route to the Indies, so that Spain would get rich quicker. That seeming courage stemmed from pure greed.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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