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:shrug: as a quick question, would you say that getting rid of slavery was a moral advancement?
If so, how? Isn't it true that the morality that the slave states held that slave-owning was justifiable or even desirable is equal to the moral position that it is not? You haven't had a moral advance in that case, so much as a use of massive amounts of violence by the proponents of one set of morals to impose their beliefs on those who propose another.
Moral advancement presumes axiomatically many things.
1) Is an advancement inherently "good?" Why?
2) Are "good" and "bad" even known to objectively exist?
3) Why is slavery "bad?"