George Washington

As a boy, George Washington grew up in a society where slavery was not only an accepted practice, but it was rationalized as a positive good. By the end of his life he had come to understand that slavery was morally indefensible, and arranged to have all of his slaves set free at the time of his death. But when he was a young man, it didn’t bother him. He accepted the rationalizations of his society, and as a result, he was blind to what should have been a glaringly obvious moral truth. What kinds of things are we blind to in our society today? What are we missing?