Great thread and I will indulge.
I’m going to start with a friendly criticism
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Down through history, men have always needed a worker/slave class to do all the work and bring in the revenue,
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That reminds of in your WWII thread where you just assume that everyone should accept that violence and tribalism and warfare is indelibly hardwired into our DNA.
When I taught US History the textbook issued to my students stated southern plantation owners
needed slaves. One of the key things I wanted to teach them was how to identify loaded language that serves to justify something that’s unjustifiable. I started the lesson simply by having the students distinguish wants from needs. I came up with a little theatrical thing where I’d take one of the biggest kids in the class and have him stand next to me and say if this kid wraps his fingers around my neck and chokes me I will
NEED air. Then I would ask them why do you think this book says
needed instead of
wanted.