[Foundation-l] Let's switch to CC-BY-SA

Ben McIlwain cydeweys at gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 21:04:11 UTC 2007


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Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Who is trolling here ? Slavery was legal and immoral. My question was about
>> things that were illegal.
> 
> The distinction is irrelevant, you can reverse it pretty easily: Since
> slavery was legal, rescuing someone else's slave and freeing them (a
> moral act) was illegal (it's theft, basically).

Do you know how many thousands of people were jailed for breaking the
law by assisting slaves to escape into freedom?  Ever heard of the
Underground Railway?  That wasn't legal, yet it was right.
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