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Comment by mtalantikite

1 day ago

It was legal to own humans. Don't conflate laws and morality, they're completely different.

Laws in theory encode the morality of the people. The people who believed it was moral to own humans encoded their morality into their legal system.

  • Indeed, in the most general sense (and probably more so in democracies) laws represent the codification of what society as a whole deems acceptable and what should happen when someone breaches that code.