[lentulusgracchus]

What you're doing is stacking the deck or creating a "straw man." You keep flailing away at this image that you've created and count yourself a winner in the argument, even though your straw man is far from "the primary moral argument we've been discussing." It's your preoccupation, and that of your friends, more than anyone else's.

And how is your "primary moral argument" distinguishable from this Mark-of-Cain ridden Southern Beast I described, whose immobilization before the Triumphant Forces of Righteousness is the entire purpose of your "primary moral argument"?

You argue Southerners are endogamously bad -- or maybe only culturally polluted by their mothers' milk -- in order to obtain and justify a social sanction to reform them by force, against their will, like cigarette smokers, into "New South" Yankee-Men/Soviet Men, whatever. Let's start there.

Your moral injunctions are actually a claim -- a claim of the right to lobotomize and brainwash. Admit it.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Your #2666] What you're doing is stacking the deck or creating a "straw man." You keep flailing away at this image that you've created and count yourself a winner in the argument, even though your straw man is far from "the primary moral argument we've been discussing." It's your preoccupation, and that of your friends, more than anyone else's.

[My #2851] And how is your "primary moral argument" distinguishable from this Mark-of-Cain ridden Southern Beast I described, whose immobilization before the Triumphant Forces of Righteousness is the entire purpose of your "primary moral argument"?

<crickets>......

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