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I simply say that hunter gatherer cultures certainly understood the concept of no quarter and indeed practiced it as a modus operandi on a regular basis...on themslves as part of their place in the eco-system. They competed with the environment at large to survive and maintain food and shelter and also competed in intertribal warfare consistent to the point of genocide amongst themselves in an effort to simply ensure their survival. When faced with an encroaching European invasion they often inflicted a no quarter policy towards the invaders (understandable) and in turn were at times right or wrong subjected to the same.

This particular discussion is very interesting as I believe it goesa far beyond a simple idea of the word "genocide" but entails a true grasp of survival within an ecosystem. Thw whole hunter/hunted/prey thing is very much self evident amongst earlier hunter gatherer cultures in North America or anywhere else in the world in any age.

Perhaps we even should recognize our own desire to survive and prevail in our own greater ecosystem which now includes the entire globe.

Perhaps the morality of it all is rooted substantially in competition.