Talk:Unity/@comment-5291480-20120714203439/@comment-5243280-20120729054841

People like George Washington had slaves, but others who were not "great men/women" also possessed them. People did stupid, uneducated, and unintellectual things while in possession of slavery (a barbaric practice) as well. Slavery was a stepping stone (and an important one) from the "uncivilized" societies to more free and democratic ones that would form later. It is the U.S.'s greatest shame (in my opinion), that it was among the slowest and last of the "free" and "civilized" nations to give up and abolish slavery and all of its practices. Not to mention achieving women's rights, and other freedoms that should have existed in the first place. Are you saying that slavery is wrong, or that slave owners who philosophize and only philosophize were the lazy, unnoble ones.