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>In Democrates Secundus, or The Just Causes of War against the Indians, Sepúlveda followed Aristotelian and humanist arguments he derived from Palacios Rubios and Poliziano. >He proposed four "just claims" to justify the conquest:
>The right of protection of the Indians, which implied their submission to Christian rule, in the belief that it was for their own good to submit to the Spanish, since they were incapable of governing themselves. This did not mean reducing them to servitude or slavery, but rather that they should always be considered, so to speak, minors.
>The need to prevent, even by force, cannibalism and other unnatural behaviors practiced by the indigenous people.
>The obligation to save future innocent victims who would be sacrificed to false gods.
>The mandate of evangelization that Christ gave to the apostles and the pope to the Catholic King.
>Waging war would facilitate the preaching of the faith.
>The right of protection of the Indians, which implied their submission to Christian rule, in the belief that it was for their own good to submit to the Spanish, since they were incapable of governing themselves. This did not mean reducing them to servitude or slavery, but rather that they should always be considered, so to speak, minors.
>The need to prevent, even by force, cannibalism and other unnatural behaviors practiced by the indigenous people.
>The obligation to save future innocent victims who would be sacrificed to false gods.
>The mandate of evangelization that Christ gave to the apostles and the pope to the Catholic King.
>Waging war would facilitate the preaching of the faith.
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