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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ultra Magnus: [QB] You do better when you know better. Seeing 'them' as they 'truly' are, apparently means taking our 2001 values, judgements and paradigms and using them to determint wether a person from hundreds of years ago is right, wrong or justifiable. Of course it's not justifiable. Now. Jefferson and his compatriots in Slavery didn't have the Civil Rights movement, the Emancipotato Proctolimisation, or the Beaumont Freedom writ to enlighten their judgement. 20 years ago, seatbelts weren't used. Or weren't in wide use. If we postulate that 'The people didn't know seatbelts could help you not die, as they were relatively new', are we defending reckless driving? 20 years from now, when we're all impotent from Cell Phones, are people going to say 'Cell Phones weren't, at that time, proven to be hazardous' defending the practice of irradiating sperm? You can not take what you know now, take somebody who didn't know that then, and condemn them for it. Noone here has defended slavery. The closest I've seen is someone defending the way Jefferson kept slaves. In 2001, Slaves = Horrible. In 1977, or whenever Jeffermason was President, Slaves = Common. Common <> Right, but 1977 knowledge <> 2001 knowledge. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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