“counter productive,” interesting choice of words.

Perfect non-answer, by the way. 10 out of 10.

Personally, I think that emancipation was good, even if a war had to be fought for it. I don’t know if this is a hot take or not, but I just don’t like slavery that much. I’m very binary that way: slavery bad, freedom good.

Would you like to amend your non-answer, Mr Politician?

If your nuance is “there should have been peace talks,” there were. Your strategy failed. What now?