Lynching was a habit that was broken by social intervention and we would only go back to it in he event of an unprecedented regression. We do inch along ethicaly extendingi the reach of tolerance, helpfulness, democracy and non-idolatry. Progress is breaking bad habits.
Maybe we would go back to it more easily than with "unprecedented regression":
http://abcnews.go.com/US/supervisor-caught-recordings-discussing-hangings-whites-water-fountains/story?id=23986223
Cotton Gin Employees Record Supervisors Racist Remarks
The two men, Untonia Harris and Marrio Mangrum, said the
intolerance at Atkinson Cotton Warehouse went on for months. Eventually,
Harris had enough and recorded the supervisor's statements with his cell
phone.In one of the conversations, the supervisor told Harris he couldn't drink from certain water fountains.
"What they do when they catch me drinking your water?" Harris asked the supervisor in one of the recordings.
"Thats when we hang you," the supervisor responded.
Professor John Collier [email protected]
Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa
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