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<blockquote data-quote="SmokinM" data-source="post: 1660107" data-attributes="member: 21382"><p>Like anybody and anything you can find "proof" on the internet for whatever side of the story your looking for. Fact is none of us were around then and none of us are perfect. He fought for what he believed in and so many of us may someday or on a smaller scale have already been in his shoes. Whatever side we were fighting against thought they were right too.</p><p></p><p>The issue of slavery was complex and while it is never right to own another human there was a lot more to it than that. In that day and time they were their tractors basically. They weren't fighting for the right to own another person they were fighting for their livelihood. If they told you tomorrow everything you use to make a living and feed your family was against the law would you stand up and fight. Also anybody who thinks that when they crossed the Mason Dixon line they were free and equal is very mistaken. They might have thought you shouldn't own them but they sure were not treated as equal. A large portion of the south didn't own them and sure weren't fighting so the rich guys could. That's like taking up arms so Jeff Bezos can keep Amazon and if they outlawed computers tomorrow don't you think he and Gates wouldn't lead the cries for war. There was a lot more to the war then that one factor and one view. A different time and circumstances than any of us can relate to based on thousand of years before that of mankinds existence we certainly are to far removed from to grasp. An ugly time in our past but one so very critical to remember.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SmokinM, post: 1660107, member: 21382"] Like anybody and anything you can find ”proof“ on the internet for whatever side of the story your looking for. Fact is none of us were around then and none of us are perfect. He fought for what he believed in and so many of us may someday or on a smaller scale have already been in his shoes. Whatever side we were fighting against thought they were right too. The issue of slavery was complex and while it is never right to own another human there was a lot more to it than that. In that day and time they were their tractors basically. They weren’t fighting for the right to own another person they were fighting for their livelihood. If they told you tomorrow everything you use to make a living and feed your family was against the law would you stand up and fight. Also anybody who thinks that when they crossed the Mason Dixon line they were free and equal is very mistaken. They might have thought you shouldn’t own them but they sure were not treated as equal. A large portion of the south didn’t own them and sure weren’t fighting so the rich guys could. That’s like taking up arms so Jeff Bezos can keep Amazon and if they outlawed computers tomorrow don’t you think he and Gates wouldn’t lead the cries for war. There was a lot more to the war then that one factor and one view. A different time and circumstances than any of us can relate to based on thousand of years before that of mankinds existence we certainly are to far removed from to grasp. An ugly time in our past but one so very critical to remember. [/QUOTE]
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