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Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ... by ChainOfFools on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:42AM (#17807544)
but dang you can't put 'feeling chilled' and 'dehumanization' into rational numbers, and for a certain kind of person the inability to enumerate something or quantify its cost, is an automatic 'irrationality discount.' i.e. 'What can't be counted, can't count for much.'
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Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ... by dang on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:13AM (#17808156)
Maybe that's part of why collating slavery vs. war goes wrong. Mixing even a little quality with all that quantity would change the mentality, it seems to me.
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