Against the New American Century

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Simple Questions for OAO.

1.) Is Slavery bad?

2.) Should societies allow slavery?

3.) Has Slavery ever been beneficial to any societies economy?

4.) Would it be possible to construct a reliable economic model extracting slavery from American history and accurately determin what our country would have been able to achieve and where we would be now without it?

5.)Would it be possible to construct a reliable economic model extracting colonialism from European history and accurately determin what Europe would have been able to achieve and where it would be now without it?

6.) Have rich and powerful cultures ever exploited poor and powerless cultures?


My guess is you think most of these questions are uninteresting and immaterial. I would suggest that you think that because
A.) You are a direct beneficiary of historical inequity
and
B.) You are amoral.

A is an accident of birth. B is arguably of defficiancy and nothing to be proud of.

Accidents of Birth and personality disorders are paltry, unstable things to base a worldview on, especially one so thoroughly without doubt.