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Debate:Which was worse, the Civil War or effects or slavery? (view source)
Revision as of 20:40, November 11, 2009
, 20:40, November 11, 2009→Flawed Question
==Flawed Question==
==Flawed Question==
This is a flawed question. It is like asking what is worse, war or disease. They are not really comparable as one is man's doing the other is natures doing.
With that said, was slavery in the USA was worse than the war of Northern Aggression? I'd say The War of Northern Aggression was worse because it's effect was to reduce liberty for all in transforming our republic from a voluntary compact of Sovereign States to control people at the point of a gun. Slavery was on its way out and could have peacefully ended in a generation or two, if not sooner if the Northern slave traders returned the money they sold slaves for where the buyer expected a lifetime worth of return on investment. --[[User:Peterporcaro|Peterporcaro]] 15:40, 11 November 2009 (EST)
This question implies two untrue statements: (1. The Civil War was fought to end slavery. (2. Slavery could not have been abolished without it. Neither of these is true, so the question is flawed.--[[User:Lordofthemarsh|Lordofthemarsh]] 00:44, 2 June 2008 (EDT)
This question implies two untrue statements: (1. The Civil War was fought to end slavery. (2. Slavery could not have been abolished without it. Neither of these is true, so the question is flawed.--[[User:Lordofthemarsh|Lordofthemarsh]] 00:44, 2 June 2008 (EDT)
::The reasons for secession all led back to the question of slavery. Slaves were considered property in slave states. The question as to then whether the Federal Government was able to take a persons private property was paramount for the reason to secede. The selective picking of events while ignoring the reasons they happened is a political tact common since the end of the American Civil War. If not after the first State seceded. That slavery could have been abolished without a Civil War is mute since secession was in fact a Declaration of War against the Union.--[[User:Roopilots6|Roopilots6]] 10:20, 2 June 2008 (EDT)
::The reasons for secession all led back to the question of slavery. Slaves were considered property in slave states. The question as to then whether the Federal Government was able to take a persons private property was paramount for the reason to secede. The selective picking of events while ignoring the reasons they happened is a political tact common since the end of the American Civil War. If not after the first State seceded. That slavery could have been abolished without a Civil War is mute since secession was in fact a Declaration of War against the Union.--[[User:Roopilots6|Roopilots6]] 10:20, 2 June 2008 (EDT)