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I'm not sure why you're absolving yourself of free will. When courts ruled that chattel slavery was legal and just, were they correct? What if a court today rul

• ImPostingOnHN 8mo ago
  > What if a court today ruled that chattel slavery was legal and just What if it ruled the opposite (the status quo), and you used your same argument to say that the courts are wrong and that chattel slavery actually is legal and just? What makes you, 1 random person out of billions, more correct than the courts, just because you might personally feel chattel slavery is legal and just? > Courts and judges are not perfect. If courts and judges are not perfect, then that means that you and your dissenting opinions are even less perfect. Even if we were to accept mob rule, the people don't share your dissenting opinion, so your proposal seems to be that a randomly-small minority of random people unaccountably decide matters of law based on whatever criteria they feel at the time -- a worse option than courts in every way.