What do you think about the Civil War ?

[Mr_Quick]

What's the word I'm looking for that involves forcing others to work for you and then gaining every bit of the fruit of their labors solely for your own? Oh right, slavery.

Did the North discontinue the practice of slavery and eventually clash with the South over it because most Northerners felt it was immoral to treat black people so disrespectfully, or were the causes more political and economic in nature? In other words, was it our collective character that led us to act the way we did or our circumstances?




Now, suppose you have two people who both possess a character flaw, but Person A's circumstances encourage it while Person B's circumstances discourage it. Perhaps they're both thieves, but one is free and the other's in jail, or maybe they're both gamblers, but one lost all his spare income in the recession and decided he likes eating more than gambling. Is Person B entitled to pass judgment on Person A?

[Johnnyboy150008]

Didnt we nuke the south

[snowboarder1992]

We didn't have to go into a civil war. We could have easily solved everything peacefully.

Obviously, if we allowed the South to fully succeed, they wouldn't have lasted as an independent nation because . . . :
The South had no industry.
The South's economy was made up of agriculture and slaves would have most likely rebelled.
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The rest of the world will fear recognizing them as an independent nation.

giving the brutal punishment the slave holders used i would disagree with the rebelion John Brown counted on that and he ended up being executed, however slavery was on its way out I yhink the United states would have been better off in the North had let the South secede.