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I would've willfully and knowingly violated the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, if I'd lived in the 1800s US. I would have helped slaves escape
by winter_blue 11y ago
I would've willfully and knowingly violated the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution, if I'd lived in the 1800s US.
I would have helped slaves escape from slave states into free states, and would have harbored them in my home (and whatever property I owned) in total defiance and violation of the law. And I would've been willing to go to jail for it.
- chillacy 11y agoI don't anticipate any of you to change each other's minds, but it's interesting to see how you've both built up the world on different principles (sokoloff believing that right and wrong is defined by law and you believing that laws may not reflect morality, and if I might guess, sokoloff seems to be a relativist and you an absolutist)