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by slowmovintarget 2118 days ago
We fought our bloodiest war attempting to destroy one side of that contradiction. Individual liberty remains the most important tenet of a free society. Preserving it demands personal responsibility and impartiality. Anything less is pandering.
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Nota Bene: other countries got rid of slavery, earlier, without bloody internecine wars.