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But if you recognize your morality as unfeasible in the described scenario then that makes your morality useless and moot.What I expect from people is completely independant of what is moral.
For example, I expect you to continue to make false assumptions about what I believe and claim I said things I haven't said and then retreating behind "implicitly" and I expect you to continue to not apologize for doing so.
See? What I expect is completely seperate from what would be the moral thing to do.
Retreating behind "implicitly"?
It might seem small, but when its the only direct statement you make to the slave population in our discussion. You didn't even qualify this further until:It is not spin. They[The slaves] murdered children. You find it morally justifiable. I don't. I think you should stop trying to justify the murder of children. That's not virtue signalling, it's a request for you to be more virtuous.
Which for the record, wasn't even the entire breadth of what I was saying. Its not just the killing of the masters that is morally right when you are a slave, but those who uphold, enable, or encourage the master's way through the enforcement of his laws, the direct purchasing of his production, and the direct selling of goods and services related to the upkeep of slavery. So pretty much the entire non-slave population of Haiti at that time. You argue that the murder of the children was wrong and unnecessary (Fair) but outside that I can't agree. anyone who wasn't a slave who lived on Haiti prior to the slave revolt depended on slavery in some form or another. Even those who might have thought lesser of the practice (But not enough so to actively fight it.)The assumption that I would find it morally wrong for slaves to kill their masters is created in your own mind out of whole cloth, much like your presumption of my emotional state.
But you know what? Having read through our conversation, I am wrong and you aren't saying what I thought you were saying so I will apologize. I was over-presumptive and a fair bit arrogant to you, that was uncalled for and I am sorry for my conduct in our discussion. I thought you were being dishonest with me and reacted poorly. It was rather childish of me.
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