(May 28, 2011 at 5:50 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Do you think it was right for americans to leave the british empire but not for the south to leave the united states?
Of course. As Franklin put it at the time, "Revolutions are always legal in the first person. It's only in the third person, such as 'their revolution' that it becomes illegal."
Plus, they lost, and things are only illegal if you lose or get caught. Notice how Bush, Cheney, et al aren't currently at the Hague for war crimes.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
