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Originally Posted by TheDoc
We aren't talking about if it's right or not. I don't think most laws are right.
The question was more, if it's legal or not. It was legal to have slaves, until a higher court said otherwise, but without question it was legal.
It was never legal for Hitler to commit war crimes.
I can make my own rules and laws too, even have friends agree to them... even have my own judges that rule with me. But if a higher power, a higher court, says different and they can force that power on me, then my law is null (or never was), if I like it or not.
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Welll, saying slavery was "legal" is really a red herring here Doc, sorry. A State can make ANYTHING "legal" - "Kill every firstborn son" for example - but if a "higher court" decides to side with the "law" what then? Courts can be bought and paid for, too. Look at Clarence thomas, the shit he's been doing for over twenty years. In another time a Supreme Court Justice would resign over something like this (and for far, far less) but NOW? Fuck it man. The State owns everything - the media, the courts, the Congress, everything.
What i'm saying is, THIS Supreme Court would probably rule that Slavery was still "legal". LOL So saying we have to follow laws like that is ridiculous. Just sayin'.