> If yes, you don't want to be standing on the wrong side of history by publicly expressing your disagreement. Lincoln was very much on the wrong side of histo

> If yes, you don't want to be standing on the wrong side of history by publicly expressing your disagreement. Lincoln was very much on the wrong side of history, and even in his time many abolitionists argued that it was horribly immoral to allow slavery where it existed, or to end slavery only in military-occupied areas of the Confederacy. Should we have shunned him then? This is exactly why I don't like black/white mob rule, FWIW. Life's too complex to be reduced to a set of tripwires that define our behavior. Evolution has provided us all with the most advanced processing devices on this planet, we should all feel free to use them to examine a given case on its own merits.