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Sk8eM dUb
See USA after Civil War, it wasn’t kumbaya, laws against the now free slaves were enacted (Jim Crow, segregation).
Sk8eM dUb
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You're contradicting yourself here. I thought that most people were moral but here you're saying that enacting or abolishing a law doesn't make people moral(true!).
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I'm not sure I see the contradiction, could you change the wording a bit or explain it a bit differently?
Sk8eM dUb
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So the contradiction is that you're arguing that laws are a top-down imposition but here you're saying Jim Crow laws were bottom up.(imo this is historically innacurate)
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So, whites just came up with more creative ways (like segregation) to keep blacks from advancing (economically or socially)
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I mean it did technically free them which is a step in the right direction but it didn’t change the feelings whites had towards blacks.
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oh ok, thanks. I think you’re right Jim Crow was top-down?
Sk8eM dUb
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I'll defer to Dinesh D'Souza on this one. It's a deep deep rabbit hole of rewritten, hidden and spun history. Start with the shock doc "Hillary's America"
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thanks
Sk8eM dUb
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Sorry! >_< I mean to say that you've indicated(I think?)that the NAP is independent of laws but then abolishing slavery(was that adding or removing a law?) didn't help to free anyone.
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My point is legislating morality creates a sharp divide in an otherwise smooth transition.
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Change does happen, I think people are becoming more accepting of others as the world becomes more connected.