> Being a slave means that your masters consider your life to be less valuable than theirs. So even though you're a human being, they deny you rights and treat

> Being a slave means that your masters consider your life to be less valuable than theirs. So even though you're a human being, they deny you rights and treat you like a lower form of life. The same can be said in our society about criminals or the poor. Not universally, but slaves were not universally seen as "lower forms of life" either. > Is this life form a human being? Are they well intentioned? The use of "well intentioned" here is a catch-all for being able to say "anyone who does not follow my moral framework may be subjected to the punishments of my moral framework." It is equally capable of condemning the well-intentioned thief stealing food (or money for food) to live, with no ill will but no belief in other opportunities for getting by, and also the well-intentioned parents who refuse medical treatment to a dying child due to the belief in their religion that God will heal the child without the corrupt manipulations of the material world. There is no objectivity here.