To you perhaps, single-cell cerebrum, but not to anyone aspiring to look critically of the rights and wrongs of the various actions leading up to the war of secession.
"In any case, the common sense of what President Lincoln said is so obvious that you don't even quote it."
The matter of equitable disposition of costs is secondary to the issue of the existence of the right of secession. And the "common sense" of his words is in the eye of the beholder. You just can't seem to understand that your view of the world does not always (I might even say does not often) coincide with truth and reality, which are elusive even to intelligent people.
Not to an honorable person.
The secesh were no better than common thugs.
And you don't seem to be.
Walt