What’s your point? Tolerating slavery would have been fine as long as they thought it was wrong in theory?
No, just that, contra your title, most EAs would have been abolitionists, the way that I understand the word “abolitionist” to be used.
Cool, let’s just redefine “alignment” and call it a day. Wait, isn’t that kind of what you’re doing?
What’s your point? Tolerating slavery would have been fine as long as they thought it was wrong in theory?
No, just that, contra your title, most EAs would have been abolitionists, the way that I understand the word “abolitionist” to be used.
Cool, let’s just redefine “alignment” and call it a day. Wait, isn’t that kind of what you’re doing?