>>Oh, I know full well. What I said was that I don't understand how a soldier can kill his own people on the order of a tyrant, not that I didn't know it was happening.
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>>As far as western civilisations are concerned, the U.S. civil war really wasn't all that civil. The other point is that western civilisations do it too, but they do it on a smaller and more isolated scale.
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>The civil war, was just that, a war. It wasn't the same as what is happening in these other countries. If you want to use the civil war as an example, you might as well throw the American Revolution in the mix too.

you're not suggesting that ending slavery, or at least ending the spread of slavery, was worth fighting for, are you? :)