Your cause is not the moral equivalent of fighting slavery
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Your cause is not the moral equivalent of fighting slavery
A lot of people cannot differentiate having a cause from dehumanising people who don’t agree with them. As we’ve all learned by now, a person’s goodness cannot be measured by the amount of carnage they’re willing to unleash on people they categorise as other.
Laura Kennedy • The Power of Shutting Up
Princeton professor Robert George wrote, “I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have been abolitionists! They all would have bravely spoken out against slavery, and worked tirelessly against it.”1 No, they wouldn’t have. They
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