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> Buuuuut he was a slave-owner You say this mockingly, as if being a slave owner should not overshadow everything else you do in life. Yes, it should. It abso
by user-the-name 5y ago
> Buuuuut he was a slave-owner
You say this mockingly, as if being a slave owner should not overshadow everything else you do in life.
Yes, it should. It absolutely should. Being a slave-owner is massively, grotesquely evil. It should be what you are remembered and rightly denounced for.
> Particularly when you use today's more sensitive moral yardstick to measure yesterday's actions!
Considering slave-owning to be morally wrong is not a modern invention. It was considered wrong at the time too, just not by those who were profiting off it.
For instance, I don't think you'd find many slave who did not think it was evil.
- Qi_ 5y agoSo by your logic we should remember people like George Washington as essentially evil. How is that fair? One’s achievements and flaws must be considered inside their historical context, not our modern viewpoint.
- bigbillheck 5y ago> inside their historical context Even among just the founders, slavery wasn't an institution universally accepted even in Washington's day.
- user-the-name 5y agoYes. Yes, we should. Yes. Then man kept other humans as slaves. That is evil. There is no question about this. People in his own time thought this was evil. He did it anyway. He was evil.