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Doctrine of Discovery

The Catholic church is rightly being vilified for inventing the doctrine of discovery - but none of the world's great powers can afford to smirk. All - including Britain and the USA - happily endorsed the idea, declared it to be international law and claimed it justified their seizure & rampaging colonisation of foreign lands & indigenous peoples.

I can't see what effect 'revoking' it would have except as a symbolic gesture. Maybe could be an attempt to de-'legitimize' future transgressions but I wouldn't count on it.
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I don't understand "discovery". I am sooooo not catholic.
@FlowersNButterflies It's another way to say "Finders keepers" with the addition of the idea that if you find someone else's stuff. you not only get to keep the stuff, you get to enslave the former owner and abuse them however you like.