A Lesson on Moral Equivalence from Benjamin Franklin

[parsa92]

One imperishable account that perfectly illustrates how one should always look at oneself honestly in the mirror was Benjamin Franklin's satirisation of the pro-slavery arguments being promulgated in the America of his day by which perfectly illustrated how Americans felt about their own countrymen being taken into slavery by the so-called Barbary states of North Africa.

Benjamin Franklin s Excellent Use of Moral Equivalency on Slavery

 

[Derideo_Te]

Nice link.

Got to wonder how Franklin would parody the farcical Grand Jury in Ferguson today.

Satire is a great way to make a valid point.

 

[parsa92]

Well said, satire is not only great, but it plays an important role in a free society.

 

[whitehall]

In 1790 the U.S. barely existed. The Nation's capital was under construction and Rhode Island was the last state to ratify the Constitution. There were no American slave ships at the time. England, France and Spain and dozens of independent contractors supplied the fledgling Country with slave labor. This situation continued for about the next seventy years.Blame freaking England and France and the rest of Europe for the slave trade and give the U.S. a break.