[ExI] overlooking

[William Flynn Wallace]

Yes - watching laws and sausage being made.  Toss some bones to the people
who are just wrong and try to get by with compromises.  And amendments.  I
will reprise my opinion of Odysseus here:  I think that he was a thug and I
don't care if the people at the time thought he was a hero.

Rape, pillage, murder are just not going down with me as acceptable no
matter what.  bill w

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:37 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* [ExI] overlooking
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> To me it's not overlooking in how we judge our Founders.  It is accepting
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> Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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> Ja.  Otherwise the farther back in time you go, the worse they get.  Our
> perception of right and wrong changes over time for perfectly
> understandable reasons: we get to see how things turned out.  The old
> timers were guessing at how things would turn out.  We read about it.  The
> old ones didn’t even have internet.
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> The founding fathers recognized that the continent could not sustain a
> prolonged armed struggle between states, or a system whereby every state
> was a completely independent nation (which is why they didn’t allow the
> Green Mountain Boys to form Vermont into its own country or the Kanawhans
> to form an independent nation.)  The founders had to accept compromises in
> order to get the states to work together.
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