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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (5603)2/13/2001 1:37:31 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Certainly you can draw your own conclusions about my post.

As I am entitled to draw my own conclusions about X's post.

It is illogical for you to claim the right to draw what conclusions you want from my posts while criticizing my drawing conclusions from others' posts.

While you stated that my conclusions were illogical and false, you didn't offer a single fact in support of that charge. And while you acknowledged in your prior post that I had knowledge from past interactions about X, you illogically charged that my conclusions were drawn only from the discussion of inherent morality.

Your post is a polemic, not a discussion.

But let me get back on the track of the discussion and address your point specifically.

You wrote: "Yes, slavery could be seen as moral if society chose to do so." Please specify for me how broadly the "society" you refer to must choose to view slavery as moral. All of the society? A simple majority? If a society has a population of 1 million free persons and 500,000 slaves, and all the free persons think slavery is moral and all the slaves think it isn't, has society chosen to view slavery as moral?

More specifically, If it could be shown that in 1800 in this country a majority of the population believed our slavery of blacks was moral, is it your position that slavery in the US would then have been moral?
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