You might be interested in the severe, rather evil moral compromises made by George Washington. But he had a lot of good in him too. Remember that he gave up power voluntarily and refused to serve more than 2 terms (unlike modern leaders of many 2nd-world states).
Washington’s official epigraph was “Exitus Acta Probat”, which literally means the ends justify the means.. He caused the avoidable deaths of thousands of soldiers and civilians on both sides of a war that he could have avoided. He went on to found a nation that ripped a continent’s worth of land away from the Native American nations by force, while building America’s economy on the backbreaking, torturous enslavement of literally hundreds of thousands of black slaves.
This is Washington’s bookplate (similar to a personal crest) from 1798 which I found on google image search and sharpened / retouched a bit for clarity: https://imgur.com/a/M1AS6GJ
In light of this information, what do you think of Washington? If there’s a hell, would he be burning there right now for all the innocent lives he took, through the selfish pursuit of certain ambitions about how to build a new nation? What about his willingness to destroy the lives of native americans and create an abomination in the form of an economy built on incentivizing the mass-scale brutalization of Southern slaves?
Without his actions, there would be no America, which would have radically changed the outcome of WWII and much more. Would the Nazis (or a similar Germanic faction) have been the first ones to build & employ nuclear weapons? Would the Nazis be the ones developing AGI now?
What are we to make of this horrifying history which nonetheless might be less horrifying than what would have been otherwise? If you were Washington, would you have started the war?
You might be interested in the severe, rather evil moral compromises made by George Washington. But he had a lot of good in him too. Remember that he gave up power voluntarily and refused to serve more than 2 terms (unlike modern leaders of many 2nd-world states).
Washington’s official epigraph was “Exitus Acta Probat”, which literally means the ends justify the means.. He caused the avoidable deaths of thousands of soldiers and civilians on both sides of a war that he could have avoided. He went on to found a nation that ripped a continent’s worth of land away from the Native American nations by force, while building America’s economy on the backbreaking, torturous enslavement of literally hundreds of thousands of black slaves.
This is Washington’s bookplate (similar to a personal crest) from 1798 which I found on google image search and sharpened / retouched a bit for clarity:
https://imgur.com/a/M1AS6GJ
In light of this information, what do you think of Washington? If there’s a hell, would he be burning there right now for all the innocent lives he took, through the selfish pursuit of certain ambitions about how to build a new nation? What about his willingness to destroy the lives of native americans and create an abomination in the form of an economy built on incentivizing the mass-scale brutalization of Southern slaves?
Without his actions, there would be no America, which would have radically changed the outcome of WWII and much more. Would the Nazis (or a similar Germanic faction) have been the first ones to build & employ nuclear weapons? Would the Nazis be the ones developing AGI now?
What are we to make of this horrifying history which nonetheless might be less horrifying than what would have been otherwise? If you were Washington, would you have started the war?