• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    while themselves owning slaves

    I did not say that it was good morals (from today’s point of view: most of what they did was actually criminal). I said strong ones.

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      Having strong morals is mutually exclusive with compromising your morals to enrich yourself, which we’ve established is something they did.