You’re a Christian, right? It wasn’t fair when Cain killed Abel, but he did. We’re flawed, sinful beings. Life will never be fair, no matter what.
Antebellum, it arguably just upheld the institution of slavery by counting slaves as part of the population for the purpose of determining accurate representation in slave-holding states while withholding the right to vote. It continued to exist in less explicit forms for decades after the 14th though. There’s an obvious issue with the phenomenon of your representative government counting you in order to ensure it has sufficient voting power but then diluting your representative portion of that vote.
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They also don’t come over a century later. Reparations are a do over for the Reconstruction (which was concerned with future outcomes) which was aborted thanks to those Southern politicians who couldn’t accept the antebellum dream was dead and took advantage of what political leverage they had with Northern politicians at the time.
One approach I’ve heard taken regarding the 3/5’s is that it lowered the citizen count and therefore representation in those Southern states, meaning the racist South had less power.
No one should have to but the universe doesn’t care about what we believe should or shouldn’t exist. Accept that life will give us difficult things to deal with rather than waste time trying to avoid facing reality and crying about fairness. The more we avoid any potential struggles the worse it will be when a real struggle comes our way.
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How about since humans made society as it is we change it instead of being so submissive.
Nothing will ever be perfect but you know you can make something good as it possibly can be and try your best. It will be a lot of uhhhhh hard work.
Applying a human concept, fairness, to life is absurd. It’s not fair that a lion will eat a baby gazelle while it’s still alive. It’s not fair that the dinosaurs became extinct.
It can be measured and observed. Eat a Tide pod, you are dumb. Cure cancer, you are smart.
It’s cheaper for you, the consumer, as well.
The value of money is mutable.
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Good is subjective. What’s good in America would not be good in Saudi Arabia.
We are humans not animals. We are not god but we can do better.
Slaves were not citizens so counting them as anything more than zero only helped the South. Was a slave’s vote worth 3/5ths of a citizen’s vote?
Good is subjective. This is our good: * Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education, and many more. Everyone is entitled to these rights, without discrimination.
Tell that to your biology teacher.
I don’t major in biology.
I don’t know. I was just saying it was a take on the issue that I’d heard. I really don’t know much about it.
Idaho asked you a question yesterday, which you ignored just like you’ve ignored several direct questions from jshaving in this thread, so I’ll repost it:
“What are you going to do effect the change you want?”
What are you, personally, doing to make any type of change on any level? Soup kitchen volunteer? Trashtag challenge? Donate blood? Email your congressperson? Anything?
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Outstanding. I’m so glad to hear someone that knows it doesn’t mean slaves weren’t considered fully human, and that understands the less-slave states would have preferred slaves not be counted at all.
I gave 3 ham sandwiches to 3 homeless people in nyc. I also am a construction worker so I am apart of building the community. Also whatever I do won’t stop something permanently.
Wrong attitude to have regarding any major issue a person could care about.
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@jshaving That was the speech. I’m having a hard time finding it as well. Ngl I’m not too surprised why I can’t find this but yk what since I do go to an hbcu maybe it’s at the library data base. The speech took place at Frogmore South Carolina. Looks like standford has an audio file but I can’t access it.