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>>Ozarki+(OP)
Paraphrasing an aphorism I saw elsewhere: "Crime is legal now".

>>anothe+O
“If a law is unjust a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so” - Thomas Jefferson

>>l0ng1n+R1
Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner.

>>mmcwil+X1
So were most aristocrats of the time. Applying presentism doesn't invalidate the idea.

>>l0ng1n+R2
I don’t think suggesting that his quote would imply his slaves would be justified in violating their own enslavement is any kind of presentism.