[rockrr]

Your simplistic understanding of the issues is revealed in your constant use of non sequiturs. No wonder you gave up one POV for the losing one.

[DiogenesLamp]

As you have a habit of not quoting the message to which you are responding, in the interest of clarity I have performed that task for you.

DL wrote:How can the war be about Slavery when we were willing to let them keep slavery? Does our willingness to let them keep slavery make us evil too?

Your simplistic understanding of the issues is revealed in your constant use of non sequiturs.

It isn't a "non" sequitur, it is a completely valid sequitur. Your argument was "The War was over Slavery. Slavery was bad. Therefore I win."

My response was to point out that there is ample evidence to prove that the Union (Lincoln) was willing to let slavery continue if they would just stop fighting.

If Slavery is Bad, anyone supporting it must also be bad. Ergo, our willingness to let them keep slavery makes us bad too.

See? Sequitur!