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Slavery is not okay because the guys with the bigger guns said so. Read up on the civil war.




That’s why slavery “no longer exists in the US” (up for debate). That’s not what makes it morally unacceptable. Force doesn’t determine morality. It determines what happens. Your statement amounts to a tautology: “whatever happens is what happens”

And by the way, that’s not even the whole story. The civil rights movement succeeded without force or violence for the most part. So your whole framework is pretty flimsy I think.


> That’s not what makes it morally unacceptable.

Who decides what is morally unacceptable? Those with power.

> Force doesn’t determine morality.

Really? How else is morality enforced? Other than by force?

> It determines what happens.

What happens? Like deciding what is moral or not?

> Your statement amounts to a tautology: “whatever happens is what happens”

No it doesn't.




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