Percy,
Doesn't look like many people are on your side here. I wonder what do you think of this statement:
""We do admit the Confederate statues and memorials were the cultural heritage of the South, but the part that contradicts our beliefs we would not like to have them any more."
I oppose this view point.
It seems to me this is what NoNukes and others are saying, although I'm sure they don't like that I used the word "beliefs". I used it because morals are a human construct and as such are a belief.
The South used, in my opinion, social, economic, and moral justifications for slavery. This should not be forgotten and NOTHING coveys it better than memorials to their position.
I do not support slavery or de-facto slavery. I have no claim to or would I take from someone else their work or a percentage of it under law or force of arms. Other's also have no right to my work. If either of the concepts of owning others work become true I become a slave or a slave holder. I wish to be neither, so I oppose the tax on income. If you support an income tax I'm sure you have social, economic, and moral reasons for doing so which makes you no different than Southerners 150 years ago.
In reference to the Taliban blowing up two 1700 year old statues of Buddha, Mullah Wakil said,
"We do admit the relics were the cultural heritage of Afghanistan, but the part that contradicts our Islamic beliefs we would not like to have them any more."
I also oppose this view point.
Wakil's quote from:
After 1,700 years, Buddhas fall to Taliban dynamite
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