So you agree that if the history had been different, Nazi actions would have been justified?
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Brown specifically killed the members of the household who were of voting age and who were members of a pro-slavery political party The goal was to intimidate pro-slavery settlers into giving up the cause and to inspire copycat killings, mass insurrection
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He is basically Scott's worst nightmare Eliezer's "Bad ideas get debate, never bullets" aphorism Scott's "Be nice until you can coordinate meanness" (ie the state should have a monopoly on force) Fuck that When people politically support slavery you kill them until they stop
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Wasn't he also tied into the Bloody Lawrence events as well? I know Brown was involved in the defense of Lawrence, hell, it would have made him famous even before the raid, I just forget if that murder was tied to that or just Bleeding Kansas more generally.
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Yes, it was part of an ongoing series of escalations and retaliations, but our friend here just said executing a harmless prisoner was always impossible to justify regardless of "the history" so I'm giving him my favorite example
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