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[Adrian Tymes]

--- Joseph Bloch <jbloch at humanenhancement.com> wrote:
> Some ends, such as the abolition of slavery, justify
> almost any means, 
> including (to use historical example) the waging of
> an arguably 
> unconstitutional and inarguably vicious and vastly
> destructive military 
> action. You've doubtless heard of it... the Civil
> War? Or, since you 
> live south of the Mason-Dixon line, the War of
> Northern Agression.

Check your history books.  The Civil War wasn't
originally about slavery.  It was originally about the
right of states to seceed.  Slavery got tacked on
afterwards.  The outcome of the war accelerated what
economics was proving anyway: slavery was inefficient,
pure and simple.  (Thus the South had less industry
with which to crank out war material, which greatly
contributed to its loss.)