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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry. I left out a word in my quote of Ben Franklin. The correct quote reads as follows: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."[/quote] That’s a false dichotomy written by a misogynistic slave owner. [/quote] How do you know that Ben Franklin was a misogynist? You're pretty quick to throw that word around [b]And by the way... do you really think it is appropriate to judge an 18th century man by 21st century standards?[/quote][/b] It’s not appropriate at all, but it’s all the rage now: self-righteous, emotionally-charged, and unsophisticated people smugly applying contemporary standards to accuse, try, sentence, and summarily execute people from the past, without any sense of broader context or nuance that might — perish the thought! — otherwise lead to a more balanced perspective.[/quote]
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