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I think slavery has always been wrong, even when it was accepted by society. There's many things that are widely accepted today, that will be considered wrong

• K0SM0S 10y ago
  As I said above, don't forget that slavery was that age's "industrial" drive, you could not end slavery and have the means to defend the city. It was a life or death situation, and no society at the time found a way to sustain military might without slavery as an economical asset. I take that as a sign that it was no easy change of paradigm. Later on, machines allowed one man to put out the work effort of several, and things progressively changed, but it took centuries, for hard reasons that I observe are, historically, more economic than philosophical. You could argue that domination or independence should not have been the end goal in civilizations history and I could agree, but then we're not talking about human beings anymore and it all becomes an abstract thought experiment rather irrelevant to our world.
  • ensignavenger 10y ago
    This is an interesting point- but I wonder, do you know of any significant civilizations that tried to end slavery around the same time period?