Virginia apologizes for slavery... why?

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I'm sorry, I see now. My post was inacurate. I know there was not overwhelming support saying slavery was morally wrong, but the fact is it got abolished. That was my point. They got it done. The fact that it happened before there was overwhelming popular support for it is something that should be looked favorably upon.

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Do you also look favorably upon the 700,000 who were killed in the process?

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So you see it as a bad thing because people had to die for it to be accomplished? Or maybe not a bad thing, just if you had the choise between slavery still being legal in this country and 700,000 people back alive, you would choose slavery?

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The logical fallacy of today is : false dichotomy

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Yeah because there were TONS of other options back then that did not involve war. Perhaps, the slave owners could have all sat down with Lincoln and the abolitionists smoked a peace pipe and come to a solution that made everyone happy.