Subj : SLAVERY AFTERMATH
To   : BOB KLAHN
From : JOHNJWILSON
Date : Wed Jul 13 2005 11:34 pm

-> BK>>  PB> Any speaker would be castigated.  However there is a very
-> BK>>  PB> great difference; slavery was recognized and practiced
-> BK>>  PB> world-wide.  Deliberate extermination of a people wasn't.
->
No? I take it then that you are not a literalist. (I've just been reading
Numbers.
in the Original Testament :-)
Pretty bloody-minded stuff.
'We' call it Numbers...What do 'you' call it? Sepheroth?

 
->  PB> Tribes wiping out other tribes was standard...

Ah, the good old days...


  The setting
->  PB> up of factories for the deliberate extermination of a
->  PB> people was unheard of at any time other than Nazi Germany.
->
Yep. Amazing the depth to which  people can sink.


-> 
->  The difference was the magnitude of the crime, not the nature.
->

Hmmmm...
 

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->  PB> Slavery was the accepted economic standard until the
->  PB> industrial revolution.  It wasn't a crime then, or by any
->  PB> applicable standard of the time.
->
Sparticus didn't 'accept' the economic standard...

3/5 of a person didn't go down too well...
 (How much of an 'originalist' are you? :-)
 
->  PB>   But by the time of the
->  PB> American Revolution, slavery had almost outlived its
->  PB> economic usefulness and so no longer had a rationale for
->  PB> existence.
->
Economic usefulness is a universal driving force. 
More powerful than justice and often moral considerations.
Or law.
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