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To: Tribune7
Correction: That is not why you think slavery is wrong. Most of the rest of us subscribe to the "treat others as you would like to be treated" paradigm of enlightened self interest.
299 posted on 08/29/2006 5:51:19 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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To: Junior
Most of the rest of us subscribe to the "treat others as you would like to be treated" paradigm of enlightened self interest.

Randian objectivism had nothing to do with the freeing of the slaves or the ending of Jim Crow.

304 posted on 08/29/2006 5:55:12 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Junior

And yet there are (or have been) Freepers who found no problem with slavery. None of those were atheists.


335 posted on 08/29/2006 7:33:32 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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