preslove
Lifer
- Sep 10, 2003
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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
nothings black and white.
some were shackled, some weren't.
Again, you do not have to shackle someone if you can legally torture, kill, rape, and/or sell them to someone who will do these things to them. It is easy to manipulate someone when you have this kind of power over them, and it makes it no less monstrous. This is really a silly point.
some were sadistic, others relatively enlightened.
i think jefferson and others couldn't really rationalize slavery and thought it was a necessary evil at best.
The northern states disagreed with Jefferson and the rest of the slave states on this point. It's funny how evil becomes "necessary" when it is in your best economic interest to do it.
do you really think about that 3rd world farmer growing your coffee or the sweat shop laborer when you shop at walmart? it is how it is, we let some things go.. and they did back then.
I'm not certain, but I'm willing to bet you're the type of person that mocks people for buying fair trade coffee and refusing to shop at wal-mart.