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In the US, after the end of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction, southern states enacted vagrancy laws, which permitted the authorities to imprison displaced former slaves and condemn them to forced labor if it could be argued that they were idle.

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And women successfully argued that.

In this book, Smith argued that we are moral creatures, not because of a top-down reason, but for a bottom-up reason.

A couple of years ago, I read an article by New York Times writer Michael Pollan, in which he argued that growing even some of our own food is one of the best things that we can do for the environment.

Now Edward de Bono argued that our brains are pattern matching machines.

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