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Re:Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pi... by Eisenstein on Thursday December 19, 2024 @07:14AM (#42460717)
If you can't come up with a scenario where a slave would improve their life by innovating the tools and objects they had available to them, or a scenario in which a master is not a one dimensional caricature, or a scenario where a slave is not a stupid pack animal that can only follow orders, then the burden is not on history to convince you otherwise.
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Re:Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pi... by WalterBright on Thursday December 19, 2024 @10:20PM (#42467982)
History shows us that free men produce far more innovations than unfree ones.
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Re:Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pi... by Eisenstein on Friday December 20, 2024 @03:10PM (#42474538)
* History is not written by unfree peoples

* You have not taken into account factors such as portions of population, different types of slavery or really anything at all

* Your original logic has been shown to be inherently flawed and you are still trying to argue by using evidence that turns out to be an assumption when examined

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