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The Inflation Game

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Is John Brown Right?

CNN's John Sutter asks Jona Watson if she thinks john brown was right on the issue of slavery quas slavery. She says he might have even been tactically or strategically right, that bloodshed was the only way this thing was going to get solved. But it doesn't give one permission for pulling people out of their homes and murder them, Wozniacki writes. "If you convince yourself that your opponent is hitler, then you are giving yourself permission to do all sorts of things ... with slaveholders"

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