“And the idiocy of claiming that slavery was a compassionate institution is there for all to see.”
No idiocy on equality’s part. Equality speaks to the origins of slavery being for compassionate reasons. Equality leaves the moral judgement of enslavement vs death to the reader. I don’t see equality defending the institution of slavery itself.
You can go back as far as the cavemen as far as I'm concerned. What is compassionate about saying to a person, "I own you. I own you and your wife and your children. You will work for me without pay and I can do whatever I want to you and there is nothing you can do about it?" Please. Explain to me how slavery can be considered a compassionate institution by any definition of the word. I really, really want to know.
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it." - Abraham Lincoln, 1859