Virginia apologizes for slavery... why?

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You're one sick bastard. You do realize that millions and millions of people were brutally held in servitude, killed, beaten, raped, humiliated, etc., for two hundred years, right? If you just decided that, overall, slavery had had a positive impact, that would be pretty sick. But you're actually claiming there's nothing to express regret for? That's disgusting.

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Um no..... I don't have to express regret or apologize for slavery, because I didn't have anything to do with it... and neither did my elected representatives.... And to make the argument that something good can't come from an evil act, or that an evil institution once abolished can't lead to positive results of such a magnitude that they far exceed the evil that precipitated them is absurd.