> If your choice is to free the slaves, or punish the slaver, which do you pick? False dichotomy. As an American, it sometimes rubs the wrong way when that's p

> If your choice is to free the slaves, or punish the slaver, which do you pick? False dichotomy. As an American, it sometimes rubs the wrong way when that's presented as either-or because the US chose not to punish many of the slavers and we continue to live with the consequences of that decision: they regained power and built the Jim Crow South. Justice is required for lasting peace. It perhaps need not be fatal, but it must be real.