Re:How to listen when you disagree
by adwn on Friday August 05, 2016 @05:57AM
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> if [...] 20 years of peaceful compromise would have ended slavery
There's no way to even estimate such things beforehand, so the calculation you propose is pretty useless.
I'm not saying that the decision for the war was right or wrong, but that you can't answer the question with a seemingly objective multiplication of numbers (it's the garbage-in-garbage-out principle in action).
There's no way to even estimate such things beforehand, so the calculation you propose is pretty useless.
I'm not saying that the decision for the war was right or wrong, but that you can't answer the question with a seemingly objective multiplication of numbers (it's the garbage-in-garbage-out principle in action).