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10/22/2014 2:59:48 PM
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If you could prevent US Slavery
If you had the option to go back into the past and make it so that slavery in the US never happened, would you?
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6 通の返信No, quite simply, because the world wouldnt be where we are. Its an atrocity, but without slaves, the US would not have been able to become what it is, or have achieved what it has in history. And that would have easily allowed the USSR to overtake all of europe.
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5 通の返信Of course I'd prevent slavery. Because then Obama wouldn't have been able to ride a wave of white guilt into the Oval Office. [spoiler]Zing![/spoiler]
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8 通の返信I'm torn. On one hand, my southern heritage says no, but on the other, how could I pass up on the opportunity to retroactively remove black people from the US?
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1 返信No, only because you shouldn't mess with the past. It's for the best. Just think of all the changes.
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14 通の返信Tough call... this country got its start by winning a war that greatly depleted its people... slavery was that built in free labor that allowed the US to grow and establish itself quickly economically. In a way, slavery validated us in the world market. Following the revolution, the US could have gone bottoms up very easily.
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2 通の返信No. I would never change something that major in history, despite how horrible it was.
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5 通の返信Kekyoin's Underwater Donutにより編集済み: 10/23/2014 3:26:02 AMIt's a common misconception from the times, Abraham Lincoln didn't want to "Free the slaves," he wanted to "Make the slaves free." He just went along with it like a husband agreeing with his wife. [spoiler][i]trollface[/i][/spoiler]
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2 通の返信This is actually an interesting question as of course I chose "yes" because I just think it was such a dark stain on their humanity. Well...I don't know how to say it, because I don't think anything is worth the price of slavery. But there have been so many african americans in particular that have accomplished so much outside of the civil rights movement, (which may or may have not existed anyway), that the world could look very different. You always wonder whether destroying one evil in the past could have the consequence of a greater evil. But in the end it would not matter, as not choosing to do the right thing out of fear, in general, is just laying down for what will always be a greater evil to come.
