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It's more acceptable outside the west. Western cultures were the ones who decided slavery was a universal sin and had to be eradicated everywhere. There are st
by lacampbell 9y ago
It's more acceptable outside the west. Western cultures were the ones who decided slavery was a universal sin and had to be eradicated everywhere.
There are still whole races of people kept as slaves in sub-saharan Africa, for example. And I mean outright slavery, no ambiguity about it.
Abolitionism is a Eurocentric concept.
Another example from Asia. Two people were kept as slaves for 14 years in a tofu factory. This is in a developed country with a GDP per capita comparable to Spains. They were caught and fined 40k USD, no jail time.
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3105152 http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3105152
- MrZongle2 9y agoWestern cultures were the ones who decided slavery was a universal sin and had to be eradicated everywhere. Were they wrong?
- lacampbell 9y agoNo, they were not. Slavery is a universal wrong.
- MrZongle2 9y agoWell, I agree. I just am surprised that its condemnation seems rather....muted in some of these replies.
- matz1 9y agoRight or wrong is relative. Including slavery.
- legolas2412 9y agoIt's just about whether you believe in equality and freedom or not.
- matz1 9y agoYes, not all human care or believe in that.
- lacampbell 9y agoWow that's super progressive. I'm not one for cultural relativism though, I'm afraid. I'm quite the reactionary, unenlightened provincial bore, with my outmoded beliefs like "slavery is unjustifiable".
- Bakary 9y agoOnly because we were fortunate enough that the culture that ended up banning it won out. In fact we are lucky that Western culture took this path at all.
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- rsynnott 9y agoIt's worth noting that punishments for 'employing' unfree labour in the west are also often astonishingly small, when it's prosecuted at all. Despite there being a fair bit of it around few people end up in jail over it.