re Re: MDDM Washington
Doug Millison <[email protected]> Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:25:54 -0700
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Otto: >Agreed, my girlfriend said yesterday he's maybe saying that this escape >might have been planned beforehand, she meant it in the sense that GW says >that there hasn't been any trouble recently to explain the escape. You two ought to write a historical novel that shows how it might have happened and subvert the mistaken popular belief that slavery is some kind of evil, by showing how benevolent slave-holding is really a good thing, not some feudalistic holdover that denies a slave a fundamental human right -- you could make it really pomo and show how slavery is neither good nor evil, it's just a matter of whether or not the property owner is a nice human being, the pragmatic approach, you know, that leaves those property and economic relationships untouched and expects that people will be nice to each other out of enlightened self-interest and respect for property values.