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Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs by geon on Friday November 13, 2015 @05:26PM (#10562797)
> we don't say it was OK for Thomas Jefferson to own slaves (...) We say the slaves had their rights violated

You are confusing legality with morality. There isn't necessarily any connection.

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Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs by humanrebar on Friday November 13, 2015 @05:59PM (#10562969)
I am speaking strictly morally (or ethically if you prefer). Jefferson obviously had the legal right to own slaves. The fact that the laws themselves were unjust is my point.
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Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs by gnaritas on Friday November 13, 2015 @06:19PM (#10563078)
They are unjust by modern morality, morality changes over time, it is not absolute.
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Re:Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs by fineman on Monday November 16, 2015 @02:51PM (#10576704)
It's more like morality is unchanged (Justify something other than: 'do unto others', without falling back on an obviously illogical subjective value system) but society's dirty excuses for immorality change.
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