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Ethics aside, people who never owned slaves paying to people who never were slaves is just plain silly.
let’s try this a different way.
ethics, principles, and morals are based on underlying philosophies. they’re not arbitrary statements assumed at whim.
if it’s to be assumed slavery is wrong, there has to be an underlying philosophy. what underlying philosophy is there that will change based on the generation?*the underlying philosophy as I see it is the inherent value of humans which transcends a monetary, propertial status. additionally, the equalness of people eliminates a possibility of one human arresting ownership over another.
use this philosophy or not, so long as u explain what changed throughout the generations.
To add to health (who sounds like what Rabbi Miller would say)
The Torah says לעולם בהם תעבודו just in case you don’t know לשון הקודש, לעולם means forever, no ifs, ands, or buts
no turning without a signal.
as I’ve mentioned like a couple hundred times already, the question of reparations comes after the assumption slavery is wrong. if you think slavery isn’t wrong, then call the emancipation proclamation woke-don’t start talking about reparations which is the next step.
@health can u post some substance? which of my assertions is incorrect? that ethics are based on an underlying philosophy? that a core philosophy can’t evolve over time? these are very simple questions that takes shorter to answer than to send me to college. (how conservative of you.)I never studied ethics, nor do I plan on it. I hear tell ethics courses in college glorify perversion, a position that I’m certain a believing Christian like you doesn’t agree with. what I have posted is called logic. something you’re not very familiar with and something that, unfortunately, can’t be taught.
Jews do not care what a person does, who a person loves, etc. Jews just want to be left alone. Jews shouldn’t care about gay rights, prison reform, etc. only that we are left alone to give our sons a bris.
And i wouldn’t say “extreme liberalism” to describe the current Left – liberalism is exactly the root of the word – freedom, to be able to do what you want. Jews, after our 2000 year marathon around the world finally found a society that would just leave us alone and allow us to be free. The ACLU was filled with Jews and they even defended Nazi’s when they wanted to march. Freedom means allowing those who you disagree with to in fact disagree with you, not forcing them to accept your values. This is why Jews are liberals.
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