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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Nowhere in the Constitution is there any mention of the union of the states being permanent. This was not an oversight by any means. When New York, Rhode Island, and Virginia ratified the Constitution, they specifically stated that they reserved the right to resume the governmental powers granted to the United States. Their claim to the right of secession was understood and agreed to by the other ratifiers, including George Washington.

If Lincoln wanted the States to stay in the Union, he could possibly have done so by solving the issues they had with him. In large part, the plan to use tariff money extracted from the south to subsidize industrial expansion in the north. Obviously he valued his will to use political power to meet his own personal desires over his will to prevent war. If one desires to involuntarily extract money from someone and still desires no violence, they must make a decision between them. Lincoln chose to extract money. In doing so, he chose not to stop a war.

That the Union didn't aknowledge the CSA means nothing, as the Union's perception of things does not change the actual state of things. I could ignorantly and arrogantly declare that I have a domesticated dingo, and release it into a flock of sheep to guard them like a domesticated sheepdog. That doesn't mean I have a domestic animal. But by your logic, if I simply don't acknowledge it, then it is a fact that I have a domesticated animal. After all, I said so. And I own that dingo.

The war was not started over slavery. From what I've heard, Lincoln only added the bit about ending slavery because the northerners were tired of the war and he needed something to motivate them.