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Unless your definition of slaves includes all workers under capitalist regimes, this is wrong. Plenty of conservatives don't think slavery is acceptable.
by ikeboy 8y ago
Unless your definition of slaves includes all workers under capitalist regimes, this is wrong. Plenty of conservatives don't think slavery is acceptable.
- WalterBright 8y agoI've never run into anyone that did.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI think you just did...
- maxxxxx 8y agoI have talked to some libertarians that once you push them a little seem to view slavery as a lesser evil than taxes or environmental regulations.
- WalterBright 8y agoBut they're still thinking of it as evil. Slavery is completely anti-ethical to libertarianism.
- maxxxxx 8y agoTrue. I would still argue that they should get their priorities straight. Slavery is much worse than taxation and even mentioning them in the same context is not OK.
- akvadrako 8y agoThis doesn't make sense. Slavery is obviously a particularly bad form of taxation.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI hope you are trying to be funny.
- akvadrako 8y agoNo, I’m saying that even if you think taxes are the only evil possible, slavery is effectively a 100% tax. So there is no possible sense in which it’s less bad.
- all2 8y agoThis isn't funny. I'd argue that it is true, though. Taxation, as an idea, is simply the idea of taking something from someone 'for the common welfare' (ie, other people's well being). Taking everything, including choice, (in essence slavery) could be called a 'tax' using the above definition. To compare taxes (as they are presently levied against any first world population) to slavery is quite a stretch, though.
- someguydave 8y agoIs it? What if it is entered into voluntarily?
- WalterBright 8y agoYour rights are inalienable. This means that you cannot transfer them, even voluntarily. They remain your rights. Slave contracts are worthless for this reason.
- someguydave 8y agoWho defines which rights you have and which ones are inalienable?
- maxxxxx 8y agoSociety.
- WalterBright 8y agoRights are inherent in our nature. They are discovered.
- ikeboy 8y agoAnd some libertarians think that most liberals support slavery by supporting universal healthcare or thinking bakers should have to bake cakes for anyone who wants. There are a lot of bad framings, and "all conservatives think slavery is ok" is a terrible one