get_it_together1 t1_isn9ckx wrote on October 17, 2022 at 6:43 AM

Reply to comment by Parking-Mud-1848 in Philip Kitcher argues that morality is a social technology designed to solve problems emerging from the fragility of human altruism. Morality can be evaluated objectively, but without assuming moral truths. The view makes sense against a Darwinian view of life, but it is not social Darwinism. by Ma3Ke4Li3

My understanding of the history of the civil war is very different than “some quakers and slaves revolted”.

ValyrianJedi t1_isns972 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 11:09 AM

"It wasn't people convincing their oppressors to let them go on moral standing. It was abolitionist movements!". "And who lead abolitionist movements?". "Slaves and ex slaves, trying to convince oppressors to free people on moral standing".

Good lord this guys logic and reasoning is through the floor.

Parking-Mud-1848 t1_isn9ify wrote on October 17, 2022 at 6:45 AM

History is not spurred by power but by the demands of people. People in power do not move until they are moved

“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.”

-Abe Lincoln