> That's old news. But what's surprising is that Paul didn't
> even pay lip service to the end of slavery.
Sounds like he didn't think he was being asked to come up with some Benthamite hedonic aggregate -- add up all the pluses and minuses and see whether your total is greater than zero. I'd say he was making a somewhat narrower point, rather than trying to say whether or not the late unpleasantness was a Bad Thing or a Good Thing*.
*Apologies to Sellar & Yeatman:
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=1255088
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