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To: Win Smith who wrote (5196)	8/29/2001 9:58:17 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

Hi Win, That was a great article. I read it with interest. Oh I just love that bastion of nutty liberal thought, the NYT, don't you? Jeez, you know somebody's to the right of Ghengis Khan when you hear that line. -g Back to the article, I thought this summed it up well: Today, it is difficult to understand why slavery was accepted from prebiblical times in virtually every culture and not seriously challenged until the late 1700's. But the institution was so basic that genuine antislavery attitudes required a profound shift in moral perception. This meant fundamental religious and philosophic changes in views of human abilities, responsibilities and rights. It must take a lot of something (self-delusion? fear?) to not see the shared humanity in people whose skins difer in color from one's own. But hell, after reading recent diatribes against AIDs patients and women around SI recently, I see that sort of nonsense is still alive and well.