Clarity In An Age Of Mandatory Equalities

"If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong." – Abraham Lincoln, April 4, 1864."They were amazed, because He taught with authoritative clarity, not like the scholars and legal theorists." - Mark 1:27 (author's amplified translation)Every so often, something I read inspires me, afresh.Isn't it refreshing, every now and then, to acknowledge in the open that there are things endemically "right" or "wrong?"Just because there exists a vehement constituency clamoring for some idea or practice does not mean all citizens everywhere are required - if they are "civilized" and "intelligent" - to ascribe dignity and equality-of-merit to whatever anyone wishes to champion into wide acceptance.No idea ever had a more passionate or committed cadre of champions than American slavery: and it was just plain wrong. Abolition was right – and it took millions of lives and years of war to enfranchise it over its endemically wrong opposite. "Unequal weights and measures are revolting to The Creator," wrote King Solomon three thousand years ago: and Hillel and Yeshua of Nazareth encoded it into "The Golden Rule" a millennium later: if you don't want your own dear ones enslaved, don't enslave someone else's.Simple values.High costs to realize into society. Worth the effort. Onward.