Writer's Block: A few good men
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Abraham Lincoln. If he hadn't signed the Emancipation Proclamation, either slavery would never have ended (and among many, many other effects, I wouldn't be living in the US) or it would have ended a generation or two in a far, far bloodier manner. (What could be bloodier than the Civil War? Try a genocide. I've read facsimiles of historical documents suggesting that as the solution to the 'problem'.)
(Yes, I know he would rather have not have done so, and that 'freeing the slaves' was a much more complicated process, etc. I could write a ten page paper about this if I had time.)
Having answered this question, I find myself wondering if we're going to be asked who the Soviet Premier with the most positive impact was (Gorbachov, imo, but I'm a child of the '80s) and so on for other countries. LJ is international and this is rather a US-centric question.
Abraham Lincoln. If he hadn't signed the Emancipation Proclamation, either slavery would never have ended (and among many, many other effects, I wouldn't be living in the US) or it would have ended a generation or two in a far, far bloodier manner. (What could be bloodier than the Civil War? Try a genocide. I've read facsimiles of historical documents suggesting that as the solution to the 'problem'.)
(Yes, I know he would rather have not have done so, and that 'freeing the slaves' was a much more complicated process, etc. I could write a ten page paper about this if I had time.)
Having answered this question, I find myself wondering if we're going to be asked who the Soviet Premier with the most positive impact was (Gorbachov, imo, but I'm a child of the '80s) and so on for other countries. LJ is international and this is rather a US-centric question.
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Date: 2011-11-18 06:59 pm (UTC)