That depends. If there were good anti-slave arguments in existence, then those who chose to discount those arguments were morally bad. If there were no good arguments, then they could have been simply ignorant.
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If you're aware that something *could* be causing suffering to others then it would be immoral to avoid reading the reasons why others strongly believe that it is wrong.
Yes, I think so. So slavery might have been wrong not because people knew it was wrong, but because they chose not to think about it too closely in the face of what was sometimes terrible suffering (Ancient Greek mining, for example).
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Ah, but I think it is probably wrong in some objective sense. i.e. slavery *is* wrong, even if nobody ever stops to think about it.
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Sorry, I misspoke before, should have said - people might have been culpable for holding slaves, etc...
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