Au contraire, the right to get it wrong is called freedom. If people haven't that right and freedom, they are not free.
Lincoln's decision was that it was better that the South not be free, that it be devastated and occupied by a vast and vindictive army of soldiers, carpetbaggers, and tax (confiscation) agents, than that he, Lincoln, should have to continue to endure the agony of Europeans' pointing out the inconsistencies between the language of the Declaration and the laws of the established government of the United States. Let the South burn -- but Abe's embarrassment must end.
He killed 620,000 men over that.
Without that principle, the Declaration, hence the Nation, hence the Constitution are meaningless.
Awww, too bad -- here, cheer up, have some rat poison. You can make it a protest statement, a statement of high moral principle, and the rest of us will just have to struggle along without you.
But no, we have to do it the other way -- 620,000 other people have to die. I get it.
Have you tried prune juice and aspirin instead?
A new low - even for you.
The South should not have violated the USA and started the war. Those deaths are at their feet, my chip-shouldered southern FRiend. Also the assassination of our great president.