Water isnt wet. It makes things wet.
The effect of an object a to another object b is never the state of the object a. A pen writes on paper, the paper then is writen but the pen isnt writen
It's interesting how whenever interesting topics like these appear on reddit, it devolves into paragraph long discussions. When these topics appear on lemmy, people just downvote you, call you a nerd and say they don't give a shit. Just something I've noticed.
Look, I'm on the Brit's side on this one. Just because the aborigines have the oldest ever civilisation and just because they lived here for 100K years before the brits turned up, doesn't mean shit.