Let me tell you a story about a small island in the South Seas
inhabited by a group of people who had very little contact with
the outside world. Theirs was a beautiful island – lush
vegetation, wonderfully sweet-tasting fruit, and many
domesticated animals good for eating. It was a tropical
paradise. But many others took advantage of the beauty. Over the
years, many ships would land on the shores, unload its decks of
pirates and thieves, and would fill its holds with plunder,
looted from the island. Many beautiful island ladies found
themselves stolen for pirates’ pleasures, many young children
kidnapped to become pirates’ servants. Many animals, much fruit
found their way uninvited to pirates’ galleys, leaving a
terrorized people behind in the wake. For many years this went
on, until the islanders moved inland. Every set of sails on the
horizon brought fear to the hearts of the natives, and they
eventually moved their homes inland, away from thieving eyes.
Well, it turns out that the island was not an islan