Wow, a thoughtful response. I genuinely appreciate it, the only thing I disagree with is:

>Reddit, generally, likes to be informed of different opinions

Over the past 5 years, I have found the opposite of this to be the case.

Very good, you're almost getting it. Keep reading and connect the dots.

I agree with you, you seem to be very confused. Google 'genocide' and then tell me about brutality, that might be a good start for you.

Yeah, I think it's at least 80 000 years, so to think that the people that were here when English explorers first arrived, were the 'first people' is insane.

Human beings have been pretty shitty to the environment and each other for as long as there have been human beings. Aboriginal Australians didn't get it any worse than any other populations that were colonized at that time.

I don't get it. No one in history was able to keep their land if they couldn't defend it... still can't. And I don't get the 'I was here first' argument. Well.. what about the people that were here before you? Chances are you took it from them and didn't recognise their claim that 'they were here first'. Also, you know what people did when they first got to Australia? Pretty much hunted to extinction 90% of the fauna that lived here for hundreds of millions of years.

Also when people say this land, or this rock is 'sacred', I also don't understand why in 2022 we still accept this as a factual statement. I don't believe in any religion or superstition, and we should be striving to keep church and state separate. You can believe anything you want, but there is no scientific backing to you saying something is sacred or not, and having it written into law.

edit - this is so weird. I was expecting to be downvoted into oblivion. Very strange for reddit.

Well, you don't know that. It's highly probable they took it from another people at some stage.