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I'm not sure why you posted this. Are you sure you read my post? I never said the South wasn't fighting to keep slavery. In fact, the main point of my post was
by wallace_f 8y ago
I'm not sure why you posted this. Are you sure you read my post? I never said the South wasn't fighting to keep slavery.
In fact, the main point of my post was closer to something like "people generally aren't good, but just want to virtue signal to sound good." Obviously, the fact that the south was even worse (and still even tried to justify it on moral grounds) seems to fit into that idea.
Anyways, the responses here are not giving me much faith in humanity. I'm still living with tyranny. Anyone want to step up, or just keep alternating between virtue signalling and being outraged?
- wallace_f 8y agoI'm not upset people responded to some of things around the central point I made. I am upset they are suggesting that central point was correct.
- bobthepanda 8y agoWho cares if it's virtue signalling and outrage if it still leads to a good outcome? At some point awareness reaches a boiling point and change happens, maybe not as fast as it should but it happens. Stop and frisk would not have mostly ended in New York City if people were not outraged by it. Of course ending it hasn't solved most of our problems, but it's better to have 99 problems than to have 100. Should we just sit on our hands until someone in a million years devises the utopia that is compatible with human behavior?
- wallace_f 8y agoBecause it's an honest look at the world. Should every injustice need to wait for its opportunity to be used as a pretext for power struggles in order for it to be thwarted? What about the people living with tyranny today? Does it matter that they can ask for help and nobody cares about them. And people will even bully and criticize them? Even today? Even right here?