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So when one has their citizens slaughtered whole-sale, they are then under obligation to offer good trading terms? If we are to reinterpret France's wrongs in
by weimerica 5y ago
So when one has their citizens slaughtered whole-sale, they are then under obligation to offer good trading terms?
If we are to reinterpret France's wrongs in light of modern norms, why not too interpret the wrong of the Haitian's? Why is this "rules for thee?"
- mrow84 5y ago“Fighting oppression is more just than committing oppression” is a norm that has an incredibly long history. What also has an incredibly long history is trying to elevate the importance of the marginal consequences of those fights, over what was being fought against.
- cloverich 5y agoBecause enslsavers created the situation in the first place. They wronged themselves by taking people who could have been educated and empowered and instead taught them violence and ignorance.
- jjk166 5y agoThe same reason we don't get too hung up on American soldiers slaughtering SS officers after liberating concentration camps. Two parties can both be in the wrong while at the same time one is way more in the wrong.