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61. Every civil war has a government killing it's own people

In every civil war there are citizens in both sides fighting, believing they are right. So it is ridiculous to get take a side in war and killing if you do not understand why they are doing it to each other. You might find that you do not support the side you took in the end.

If you knew your history, you would not need to say "what". Long story short, England almost supported the South militarily during the war, and with that the French would have followed suit. I'm sure you realize that would have been tragic for this country.

The reason for British and French support of the South was their Elites' lust for cotton, which was the oil of the era. But thanks to diplomatic bungling of the south(surprise) and the concerted international efforts of abolitionists, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, in making the politics of the situation known, support among academics and the masses was too low for either the British or French to escalate.

The moral of the story is not to ignorantly start killing people in a conflict. Statements along the lines of "they are killing their own people" and "all controlling government" don't really mean anything. They could be applied to literally every civil war ever.