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By this logic, one could justify chattel slavery in a modern country with an agrarian economy because that was US practice in 1787.
by i_am_proteus 7y ago
By this logic, one could justify chattel slavery in a modern country with an agrarian economy because that was US practice in 1787.
- AsyncAwait 7y agoYes, because saying that every rapidly developing country does IP theft as a way to speed up development, including the U.S., is exactly comparable. But if you do want to run with something as ridiculous, the U.S. holds the largest prison population on the planet and effectively forces them to do labor at a criminal hourly rate, you could say that's not as far from slavery as many would like to think.
- Fjolsvith 7y agoDon't overlook that all those criminals didn't become criminals involuntarily, like the slaves did.
- AsyncAwait 7y agoSure, am not suggesting it's exactly the same, not even close. But the treatment they get in prison, the fact that minorities are locked up at an alarming rate for drug possession, (not even distribution), the fact that they're used effectively as a slave labor force in many places, (laughable daily pay). Just because somebody's a criminal does not mean they're no longer human and arguably many of these locked up are there for crimes that we're starting to realize perhaps shouldn't be criminalized in the first place.