Torrocca wrote:Ors Might wrote:I imagine the ability to kill slave owners plays a significant part in setting slaves free.
Guns also set slaves in America free by virtue of the fact that the North could make and supply more of them to its armies than the South could.
Similarly, the Jews were set free through armed conflict with the Third Reich.
Hell, you could argue that it’s kind of impossible to enslave somebody with plentiful access to both guns and ammunition. It’s almost as if self-defense as a concept is integral to the notion of personal freedoms.