One paragraph thinking of the situation in context ( the japanese bombed pearl harbor, the u.s. was at the war with japan), do you agree or disagree with the opinion stated in this editorial?

Jewish ethics is the moral philosophy particular to one or both of the Jewish religion and peoples. ... The tradition of rabbinic religious law - Halakhah - addresses several problems associated with ethics, including its semi-permeable relation with duties that are usually not punished under law.

It was considered a crime to teach slaves to read and write because they worried that if they could communicate privately, then they may have formed plans to escape. It would have heavily damaged the selling of slaves, and would have also hurt the economy. At that time, much of the economy depended on slave trade for money. If slaves could devise plans to escape with each other secretly, then that would also have made slave masters lose much of their money since slaves were not cheap. 

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