From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 23:05:06 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
>> ... then how can you deny that blacks had, *in your
>> opinion*, a right to be free prior to their emancipation?
>
> Because I don't think that there is such a thing as "a right".
Let me rephrase it to spare you the needless metaphysical agony that
seem to be experiencing about the possible platonic existence of
"rights":
Given that you disapprove of slavery, how can you deny that, *in your
opinion*, blacks ought not have been enslaved in America?
-gts
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