there4eyeM
unlicensed metaphysician
- Jul 5, 2012
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(from post 199 "Did the good points of slavery boil down to money? If so the students the students should know that interesting little thing about people. They might also see some other bad practices we have is also the result of money, "
An early post related to this point. It could be said no 'good' points existed at all in the slavery system. Some people benefited from it in various ways. They may have thought that good. The slaves did not benefit. Comparing what their conditions were like under slavery with a hypothetical about how they might have been somewhere else on earth hardly establishes an argument for slavery.
The students should have been guided into evaluations based on other than knee-jerk sentimentalism while at the same time remaining firm that slavery cannot be justified today. By our reasoning, today, it is something that is fundamentally, eternally wrong, and was even before emancipation. Children need to learn that in other times, people thought and reasoned differently. We need to remember that, also. Calling slave owners 'evil' is misusing a religious term to describe a repugnant social practice, one that is discussed without being condemned in the Bible. It was a common practice throughout history until very recent times, and continues in forms, in some areas, even now.
An early post related to this point. It could be said no 'good' points existed at all in the slavery system. Some people benefited from it in various ways. They may have thought that good. The slaves did not benefit. Comparing what their conditions were like under slavery with a hypothetical about how they might have been somewhere else on earth hardly establishes an argument for slavery.
The students should have been guided into evaluations based on other than knee-jerk sentimentalism while at the same time remaining firm that slavery cannot be justified today. By our reasoning, today, it is something that is fundamentally, eternally wrong, and was even before emancipation. Children need to learn that in other times, people thought and reasoned differently. We need to remember that, also. Calling slave owners 'evil' is misusing a religious term to describe a repugnant social practice, one that is discussed without being condemned in the Bible. It was a common practice throughout history until very recent times, and continues in forms, in some areas, even now.