You could argue that we haven’t been ready for it yet—but there was also a period when we weren’t ready for ending slavery either; when conditions, including subjective conditions, were such that abolition just wasn’t in the cards. So one could argue that conditions today are such that we need th...
What about people who deny that? NC: Does anyone actually, literally, deny that? JM: . . . Not, I suppose, without shifting out of the moral domain. NC: What people would say, I think, is that yes, we keep to universal principles, but the special circumstances are such that . . . JM: . . . Wait...