Who Would You Have Supported In the American Civil War

[Oakvale]

I have no way of knowing, obviously. If the question here was supposed to be, "Who do you think should have won the American Civil War?" however my answer is the Confederate States, though I personally would want to live in the United States and in the event of a pro-civil rights revolution in the CSA would want the USA to militarily intervene so as to assist in their liberation.

What.

[Oakvale]

This thread is an example of the perils of abstract thought and thinking about things in isolation.

[Oakvale]

The thing you're missing here is that no amount of paens to rational enquiry is going to distract from the unavoidable reality that if you had your way the Confederacy and slavery would have survived. People are disgusted because of what would actually happen under your belief system. The fact that North Korea is a hellhole or whatever is not relevant, regardless of how logically concrete you think your argument is.

There are obviously ethical problems with conscription but comparing it to the African slave trade based on the idea that you can somehow logically extend your basic ethical principles in that manner is absurd and counterproductive to your argument.