> I also think to be Puritanical is to be hypocritical - who knows what you are doing today that people will damn you for in the future. It's almost certainly n

> I also think to be Puritanical is to be hypocritical - who knows what you are doing today that people will damn you for in the future. It's almost certainly not what you think. Thomas Jefferson certainly knew that slavery was unethical and contradictory to the values he was setting forth. He just did not have the will to act due to social pressure, greed, delusion, etc.