(March 16, 2026 at 11:58 am)Disagreeable Wrote:(March 15, 2026 at 6:18 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Or they knew full well that they were doing themselves a favour and didn't much care what happened to the black man. Either way you cut it, what we once considered moral, we don't anymore. Human sacrifice and stoning people to death are no longer considered socially acceptable behavior.
I agree that it may be the case that a lot of slave owners knew that what they were doing was wrong but they didn't care.
The fact that it was once considered moral doesn't mean that it ever was.
If people don't consider something moral, then how can it be? Are you suggesting that there's some sort of external moral truth? Seems dodgy.
