<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On Jul 8, 2020, at 8:08 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <</span><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">extropy-cha</a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">> wrote:</span></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"> If Jefferson kept a slave then he is a bad person who has utterly no qualities we want to emulate. </div></blockquote><br>
</div><div dir="ltr">Come on now, that’s awfully black and white. Mr. Jefferson (I went to UVA so we have to do that) <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">even had a son (or possibly more children) with one of his slaves. Raped a slave that resulted in a pregnancy I should probably more accurately say. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Mr. Jefferson</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span>or anybody else that has done some not-so-respectable or even atrocious things still may have positive qualities. I don’t mean to imply that the ends justify the means because I don’t support that idea. I just mean that some people who do bad things can also do good things and have “qualities we want to emulate” nonetheless.</div></div></div></body></html>