Boston tea party waste

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Was the boston tea party a sin by wasting so much tea? Thanks!
 
Tea isn’t really a necessary to live sort of product. It is more of a luxury, it probably would have been equal to dumping coffee or tobacco into the harbor.
It isn’t like you will die without tea.
 
That “tea party” was a sin, not because of the waste, but because it was a revolt against paying the tax on tea.
 
Not being America is a sin, and the colonists were just trying to be America. Not only not a sin, but we should canonize all of America. AMERICA!
 
Well in reality they were just rebels.
Winners of wars write the history.
Objectively they were no different than the Confederacy. They wanted out of a government they viewed as suppressive.
And by the way, only about 40% of colonists wanted out. About 30% wanted to be English still. And 30% just like today, really didn’t care either way.
 
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I think waste is the least concern regarding the morality of the tea party.
 
England had spent a lot of money on the French and Indian war, and winning this conflict was a great benefit to its colonialists who were then able to make new settlements. England expected these colonialists to help pay for that war, and that is what the tea tax was all about. The colonial rebellion was about these justified taxes, not about “freedom” and other platitudes.

If the colonies had remained part of the British Commonwealth, as did Canada, then they would have been obligated to join England in WW I. The independent USA was not so obligated, but chose to participate in that bloody war anyway, so what good was its revolt from England in the end?
 
I suspect the Brits on the forums would tell you that it was, for a variety of reasons, mainly due to their love of tea but also due to the fact that it was their country the Americans were rebelling against. :crazy_face:
 
These questions boil down to the individual motives of each person participating since there was nothing intrinsically evil about either Britain’s or the colonists’ motives. The actions of each were both largely motivated by greed, with lofty ideas plastered on top to give the impression of selflessness.

Civil disobedience to perceived unjust laws is preferable to revolt and war, although this wasnt a very developed concept in the late 18th century. Loyalty to the crown was still a fairly cemented idea in English culture even after the French Revolution, so there wasn’t an abundance of middle ground between obedience or rebellion. At least not to the same extent as today.
 
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England had spent a lot of money on the French and Indian war, and winning this conflict was a great benefit to its colonialists who were then able to make new settlements. England expected these colonialists to help pay for that war, and that is what the tea tax was all about. The colonial rebellion was about these justified taxes, not about “freedom” and other platitudes.
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Taxation without representation (in parliament).
 
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Which is why Britain wasn’t in the right either. I doubt anybody here would be even remotely okay with being taxed and having zero representation in government.

The narrative from Britain was that colonists were their brethren and fellow Englishmen, except that was ultimately nonsense because there was no representation. It was England and then everybody else.

Not that the Americas had any problem with 2nd class citizens. We had slaves after all. We only seemed to care if it affected ourselves or our family. We were perfectly happy to abuse other people.
 
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It’s pretty obvious where the bishops would stand today on the issue of taxation without representation.

Societies develop. Ethics also develop.
 
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It’s pretty obvious where the bishops would stand today on the issue of taxation without representation.

Societies develop. Ethics also develop.
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“My words will never pass away.” Who was it that said that ?
 
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