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Booth's Mental health
05-15-2015, 09:50 AM (This post was last modified: 05-15-2015 09:53 AM by Juan Marrero.)
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(05-15-2015 09:37 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  For Booth- it was an issue of his Core Beliefs about slavery. He did not believe it was evil. In fact, he thought it good. He thought it God-ordained.

Yes, but he lacked the moral imagination (empathy) that made Lincoln (among other things) great. "Fortune's Fool" notes that Booth was very close-minded. He wanted to learn from other people who were well informed, but only to reinforce his own opinions. What was said about the Bourbon monarchs of France might well apply to JWB: "they remembered everything but learned nothing."
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Booth's Mental health - Juan Marrero - 05-14-2015, 02:28 PM
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RE: Booth's Mental health - LincolnMan - 05-15-2015, 09:37 AM
RE: Booth's Mental health - Juan Marrero - 05-15-2015 09:50 AM
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