The thing I find wild, even with guys like Franklin, is that they ever had slaves at all. It’s not like it suddenly became immoral or they had no historical context for it that they would have only experienced the immorality by practicing it.
Historically, slavery was often viewed in a similar way to poverty - “It would be great if there was a world without it, but the world, as it works, always has rich/free and poor/slave”
Thus, the thinking was not “Slavery itself is moral or immoral” but “There are ways of treating slaves that are moral and immoral.”
People’s morals are mostly determined by their parents and the status quo and it takes a lot of energy to change that. Haven’t you made a moral lifestyle changes as an adult?
The thing I find wild, even with guys like Franklin, is that they ever had slaves at all. It’s not like it suddenly became immoral or they had no historical context for it that they would have only experienced the immorality by practicing it.
Historically, slavery was often viewed in a similar way to poverty - “It would be great if there was a world without it, but the world, as it works, always has rich/free and poor/slave”
Thus, the thinking was not “Slavery itself is moral or immoral” but “There are ways of treating slaves that are moral and immoral.”
…slavery existed for hundreds of years before europeans came the new world
Thousands of years. Slavery is as old as history, probably older.
That’s kinda my point. Did you misunderstand my comment?
did you mean never instead of ever?
People’s morals are mostly determined by their parents and the status quo and it takes a lot of energy to change that. Haven’t you made a moral lifestyle changes as an adult?