Are you trying to "win"?

With all of your respective ideologies flying around, I've had to ask myself if you're actually trying to "win". Do you have an understanding that we are one human race of people? Is competition really needed when we, as humans, have escaped such things as animalistic instnict with logic and justice?

Do you have ethics or morals that are absolute, or do they only apply to you and yours? I'm not talking about "Let's be one World"- I am merely questioning whether you all feel more fulfilled by treating others negatively for whatever reason or if you'd rather help everyone and anyone you can.

It's not a directive, but a question.

Aum Shantih Shantih Shantih

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If at the time nobody believed States could rightfully secede, why wasn't South Carolina promptly invaded upon secession? Why did South Carolina even attempt to secede, much less the rest of the States, if everybody knew they couldn't Consitutionally do so? If the people of the CSA thought the States couldn't rightfully secede, why did they go and fight for the CSA?

You didn't rebut the fact that it was a foreign fort in Confederate territory. The CSA was not part of the USA at the time. And IIRC most of the Federal money was coming from tariffs imposed on the south in the first place, the South effectively paid for their construction in the first place. You also misinterpeted the example. It's like Iran owning the US and the US seceding, and Iran trying to resupply an Irani fort in the US. I'd use an example like the UK in the revolutionary war, but the UK is friendly with the US now so the example seems rather absurd in that case. There was a lot of disagreement between the North and South, so an antagonistic other country seemed more fit for the example.

Have you seen a rebuttal to what I was saying about Lincoln starting it or not? I haven't yet, and admitted that my sources might be faulty. No need to be rude.