RE: Events that Led to the Civil War: Slavery as an Economic Engine Not a Moal Isssue
June 23, 2015 at 4:53 pm
That's interesting that the state I live in, Texas, was slow to succeed and slow to release it's slaves at the end of the war. We just "celebrated" Juneteenth the other day. Now I'm hearing g on the radio there're cats down in SC trying to remove the Confederate flag from the state buildings. One spokesman expressed dismay that Roof's actions are being set up as representative of what the Confederacy stood for. All these denials, and redefinitions and obfuscations are making things seem more complex than they really are.
My purpose in starting this thread was to show that the war had little to do with any moral motive to end slavery (except maybe on the part of Europe, but I think even a lot of that was because slavery gave the US an unfair advantage in the world market).
My purpose in starting this thread was to show that the war had little to do with any moral motive to end slavery (except maybe on the part of Europe, but I think even a lot of that was because slavery gave the US an unfair advantage in the world market).
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
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--Voltaire
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I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
