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247. The War On The West | Douglas Murray
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
What Is the Greater Evil?
During the Enlightenment period, and I cite Thomas Jefferson on this, he's very interesting figure trying to think this through as they were going through it. So there was a sort of, there was one version of the defense of slavery which was well these are all totally different people. But then of course you have to counter that with the fact that, and again Voltaire made this point, what is the greater evil? To sell somebody and buy somebody of a different country, a different race and so on, or to sell your neighbor or your brother or the member of your community. It's an exceedingly uncomfortable question to ask today. And I don't ask it."
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