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"Peter Flass" <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
>> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 7:21:41 AM UTC-6, Osmium wrote:
>>
>>> It is commonly accepted that time goes in only one direction, forward. 
>>> Can
>>> you agree with that?  If so, what is it that makes sense to redefine 
>>> what is
>>> a crime after the fact?  Can you not see that this is a perfect recipe 
>>> for
>>> chaos?
>>
>> Who needs to redefine anything? Right and wrong existed from the 
>> beginning of
>> time,
>
> So has slavery.  It's quite a wrench to see what ISIS is doing and realize
> that a few hundred years ago it would have been considered unremarkable in
> much of the world.  Slavery was on its way out before the American Civil
> War, and probably wouldn't have lasted much longer without the war.  It 
> was
> still economically viable,

It wasn’t actually with the increasing mechanisation
of agriculture, particularly with cotton gins etc.

but fewer and fewer people would have supported
> it.
>
> and everyone knows what the word "fair" means.
>>
>> John Savard
>
>
> -- 
> Pete