“This is a magnificent country that evolved over 200+ years. As a society endures, folks hopefully become educated and civilized.”
Societies do not evolve over time where a certain treatment of a class of people at some point becomes no longer ethical. Instead, practices such as slavery are an abomination today just like they were an abomination in 1860 and just as it was in 1750.
And if you are to believe that societies evolve, you must be willing to accept that societal treatment of certain classes of people today may be in the future deemed unethical.
I am not willing to accept that premise.
As I said in an earlier post, slavery was NOT immoral, nor was considering blacks a lower class of people. At least by the majority of people in 1861. By todays standards, absolutely wrong, but not then!
You cannot judge the people of 1861 by the morals of today.
Besides, Lincoln felt the same way. He could have given a damn about slaves, other than it served his political purposes.
Have you every considered regression therapy to
treat your obsession?