re: #93 GeneJockey

The very idea of compensating slaveowners for no longer being allowed to do one of the most vile things humans do is perverse. Paying people to stop doing something morally reprehensible?

It is, I agree, perverse. Yet is it any more perverse than seeing hundreds of thousands dead?

I would happily pay fortunes to see people stop doing the morally reprehensible — provided that meant they would truly stop. It’s possible slavery could have been stopped in such a fashion, with concurrent laws against slavery. But it’s also unlikely.