06-28-2022, 09:47 PM
(06-28-2022, 04:00 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Would you say that owning slaves made a person an inherently bad person? Would such behavior taint everything else said person did?
Bad or not, it does not negate their intellectual contributions. I don’t know the histories of all the great philosophers and scientists, but I’m guessing most did things that would be deemed awful by today’s standards.
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”-Thurgood Marshall