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(Too late to edit): Just to illustrate how silly your criterion is: leaders of the Confederacy weren’t even convicted of sedition or treason. Your heuristic is
by sorcerer-mar 1y ago
(Too late to edit): Just to illustrate how silly your criterion is: leaders of the Confederacy weren’t even convicted of sedition or treason.
Your heuristic is a self-defense mechanism, not a tool for thinking.
- dragonwriter 1y ago> Just to illustrate how silly your criterion is: leaders of the Confederacy weren’t even convicted of sedition or treason. Not pursuing the charges after they were filed in many cases was a political decision made for purposes of reconciliation, not an indication of innocence. This is not an uncommon outcome of Civil Wars (neither is the opposite extreme, though.)
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoIn other words: the criterion is a bad one, for this reason among plenty of others. Lack of convictions is unrelated to lack of existence or lack of evidence.