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Originally Posted by Penguin
The word "thought" refers also to the last part of the sentence. I meant: thought they were fighting. I will change my original post to avoid room for misinterpretations. Can't really write more atm, gotta eat and then leave, will reply tomorrow to the rest.
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I understood it fine. That's why I said the US Confederates might have thought they were fighting for a good reason, but they were in fact wrong, they were fighting for a crappy reason.
Being deluded isn't an excuse, otherwise. Confederates fought to preserve the right to own other human beings, Germans in WW2 fought to preserve the right to murder other human beings. Both are true regardless of what they might have "thought" they were fighting for.