[capitan_refugio]

"Once again, you've forfeited your right to pass moral judgment on that institution by giving your sanction and endorsement to a far more grievous sin: murder by torture. Your position is thus akin to the abortionist who crusades against capital punishment."

Once again you have put yourself into a God-like role to avoid the truth. Your premise is utterly without substantiation ("murder by torture" in more grievous than the torture, murder, and inhumanity of slavery). You are a piece of work, and not a particularly courageous one at that.

[GOPcapitalist]

Once again you have put yourself into a God-like role to avoid the truth.

Nope. I'm simply commenting on what you have done to yourself in this debate. Your position right now is comparable to the abortionist who expressed "moral outrage" over the treatment of death row inmates.

Your premise is utterly without substantiation

Nope. It's fully substantiated. Slavery is a sin against human liberty, itself depriving that function. Murder is a sin against human life, which it also deprives. Liberty may be impeded but may never cease entirely and always stands a chance of being restored. Life, once taken, is absolute in the deprivation and can never be restored. Thus the _effect_ of the sin of murder is substantially more severe than the _effect_ of the sin of slavery.