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Not necessarily. I object to it as well, from my 21st century perspective. And I more or less know the history. And the ramifications if that compromise wasn't made. It delayed hostilities about 80 years, but we still ended up shedding a lot of blood over it, and then the 3/5 rule was rescinded, and slavery was ended. If the compromise hadn't happened, likely the hostilities would have been almost immediate (~1790). The South would have formed their own system (as they ended up doing in the 1860s).
If avoiding bloodshed is your main concern, then logically the option to support would have been 5/5 instead of 3/5. It's entirely possible that the southern states could have phased out slavery without a Civil War, albeit after some more years (or perhaps even decades).
