A visual depiction of “Argumentum ad Baculum? An appeal to force is not always unjustified.
Excellent point.
Can’t win the argument?
Bash the other guy’s brains in.
Works every time.
“An appeal to force is not always unjustified.”
When it is an attempt to silence rhetoric that argues enslavement is morally wrong. And you are defending your right to enslave others, no, it is not justified.
That is the exact thinking behind a pogrom, or krystallnacht. Protecting evil with an appeal to force. But I will give the South credit for one thing. History has never seen such moral wrong, combined with such lofty and high minded speechifying in it’s defense.
They were almost Shakespearean in their eloquence as to why it was proper to imprison or sell people against their will.