In San Francisco, Virus is Contained but Schools Are Still Closed

[David Lockmiller]

(11-10-2020 06:09 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Your question is specious. . . . I believe that if you're going to require that no name be taken off of a school named for Lincoln, you better be ready for those who hold the same view about Robert E. Lee. You can't be in favor of one and not allow the other.

That is quite a specious argument.

In his Second Inaugural Address, President Lincoln wrote: "Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."

General Robert E. Lee is associated with the first part of the comparison: "One of them would make war rather than let the nation survive."

President Abraham Lincoln is associated with the second part of the comparison: "The other would accept war rather than let it perish."

My opinion is that the party who "would accept war rather than let [the nation] perish" is in much the superior moral position.