Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Life in the 1800s"
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States rights.... sure, the man had entire life 101 years to justify and unjustifiable war... he was much as slave as the blacks. He had to do his "duty" because otherwise he'd be skipping drafts... and jailed or forced into their limited navy.
That's why you fought. Caught up in society. And making up something that sound more noble than the reality you were hoodwinked or otherwise coerced into fighting.
Slaves in all other terms who don't get that point.
The man died revealing to us all to learn from what he did not. He was too a slave. A slave to society that said you better do your duty. And when his side failed, and the obvious revelation that slavery is bad, and that the US Civil war promptly ended slavery faster than otherwise would have happened, that makes his efforts in such a war on the side that promoted and protected slavery look even worse. That's damning. But one must let one's ego go. And realize... the poor bastard didn't even know what a state was until a child and that he was in some magical wonderland called Virginia. Groomed to be a slave. And be a slave to one's ego.
What probably he should be thinking is, I was fooled. Suckered. Suckered into magical elements of saving my home land... states rights... fuck human rights... states have more rights, tyrants to have slaves have more rights so that slavery can exist; as a slave has no rights. States rights trump human rights. All an evil immoral hazard that can as it has since recorded history come back to bight anyone; Ancient Greece, Rome, Ottoman, etc empires... slavery wasn't just relegated or easily identified to a particularly ethnic/racial skin color or look. But was equal opportunity slave system whereby even their own Italian or Greek or otherwise were subject to potentially becoming kidnapped and put into slavery.
Just say... I was in an era that forced me to fight. And if I was eager to do so, it was because it was my home. And didn't know any better.
Let's just revision evil with some non-evil. Or you just look even more pathetic and evil: in his view states rights sounds more noble than defending slavery... but with a few brain cells capable of thought, it's easy to realize that's even more evil... that the state has more rights than a human subjected to slavery. Or just as worse, perhaps he didn't see the slaves as human; despite them being every bit as human as the rest of us.
The man lived his young life being fooled, and spent the rest of his life until his death fooling himself.
That's the lesson to be learned here.
A tragedy all around.
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