Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
This is true in a sense, and it's certainly important to protect our rights. But I think you're misusing the word "rights". The slaves in the south had the right to freedom, even if they didn't possess freedom itself. Having the right to something and having it are two different things.
Quote Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good View Post
You have an innate right not to have aggression carried out against you. This right does not disappear if someone overpowers you - it is merely infringed upon.
See that's where I get lost. The slaves had no rights. It doesn't matter what they deserved, it matters what the law says. If we all have these rights why make laws?

I think yall are splitting hairs saying well they have that right they just can't exercise it. They are one in the same