Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Absolute Mad Lads - The Glencoe Massacre" video.

  1. No dogs and no Campbells. I knew a pure Scot McDonald. Man was a sociopath, but was high functioning, because he abided by a deeply held sense of honor. He wouldn't feel bad about punching you, because he empathized, but he wouldn't shame himself, if that makes sense. Not all Scots are sociopaths, I hope, inasmuch as I've got some in me. One of the things about stealing cattle that I never thought about until amusing myself with some Bernard Cornwell fiction, was the function served by making cattle raids. It was a way to teach the sons how to fight when there was no war. It was many tribes' way of not fighting a war, but keeping the young ones coming up READY to fight, if necessary. Centuries of invasion made it kind of necessary. And tribes would steal back and forth from each other, just short of war. But of course, someone always takes it too far, and there's lots of feuding. But the idea was to band together against threats to the combined tribes. And of course, we know that from Roman times on, inter-tribal warfare was the wedge that conquerors always used against Britons, Scots, East Anglians, etc. But especially the Scots.
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