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In reply to the discussion: Which side do you wish would win in the Scottish election? [View all]tkmorris
(11,138 posts)I will tell you that I have always wondered about whether the United States had the moral authority to go to war with the CSA simply to prevent them from seceding. Please note this has nothing to do with the CSA or what they may have stood for, it's more about whether one group of people has the right to tell another group of people that they may not govern themselves.
If Texas wanted to secede from the US, what moral right does the US have to tell them they cannot? This question has always troubled me, mainly because other people seem to feel the answer to it is settled doctrine, obvious in it's correctness. Perhaps the Civil War has indoctrinated us to feel that way. OBVIOUSLY the CSA was wrong, and OBVIOUSLY the US should have stopped them from seceding, and OBVIOUSLY the good guys won (that's the usual thinking anyway, at least in the North).
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