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That has to be the most misapplied and taken out of context historical quote that exists.

you say so heathen lol

Conservative here: Agreed. It's not unreasonable for a private company to mandate people vaccinate to use their services.

Now, if the government does it (mandate vaccines), then we have a problem. They have an obligation to meet the lowest common denominator when it comes to policy, and that means they have to accommodate religious and other beliefs, some of which preclude vaccination.

Governments have been mandating vaccination for years. You have to vaccinate your child if you want him or her to attend a public school.

Anyway, your point is kinda moot since they haven't been mandating the coronavirus vaccines, as far as I know.

Most states allow for some form of exemption from that rule on religious or personal belief grounds. I think California, New York, and Mississippi are the only that don't.

It's not moot though...I love vaccines and 100% support them, but I understand why people fear them. To me it is absolutely unacceptable if we as a society think it's OK for someone to be coerced into allowing a strange substance injected into their body. Now, if you can convince them to willingly do so (because the body of evidence supporting vaccine safety is overwhelming) then that's great! But if they're say, of a religious denomination that holds the body is a temple of God and using medicine or technology to prolong life is a sinful affront to his Will (people like that are out there), do we have a right to override their 1st Amendment rights just because we believe differently? I don't believe so.

Also, as far as religious and other beliefs go, governments have historically accommodated them, but only up to a point.

Ben Franklin, if only I could meet you before I come up to heaven. I wouldn't want you to come here tho. No.

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Anyone? 6. He owned 6 slaves before he got woke. Two of them were assistants in his newspaper. Business owners back then were so lucky not to have to pay their employees...

Many Pennsylvanians owned slaves , Most were to Buy loved ones out of bondage.
Many Quakers who were the most antislavery people on the planet (besides the slaves themselves)
would purchase people.
The south considered all black folks as slaves, even freed ones. But they honored ownership, so if a free black person was snatched up down south and he was "owned" by a northerner, they would honor it (sometimes).

There is slavery going on in Africa today. the Late NFL great Reggie White "92" would buy many children in Africa and set them up in good homes in the USA. You can read about it in his book.

He technically was a modern day slave owner.

Yeah supposedly Angelina Jolie bought her daughter, too. Ben Franklin owned slaves for 50 years before his wokeness kicked in.

I am well aware that Benjamin Franklin was at one time a slave owner, it dosen't make what he said in this case any less true or any less applicable.Benjamin Franklin did at least see the light on slavery later in life when he became an active abolitionist.

Lemme guess? You like socialism?

Lemme guess: you sent your stimulus check back to the government?

Anyone wanna guess what year it was when he owned them? How about does anyone wanna guess if it was socially acceptable and fairly common in that year. Julius Ceased owned slaves as well as did Mohammed. What’s your point?

He had a whole family of slaves: a husband, wife and their son. I don't care that it was the latest fashion, he owned them for 50 years and THEN admitted it was wrong.

Sure it does when you look at it through 2921 morality. How about Mohammed? Shall we destroy Islam because he had slaves? Shaka Zulu owned slaves along with most African leaders. Hypocritical? Yes you are.