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We all live in contradictions. That doesn't make you a bad person, just human. You are yourself against slavery (I hope:)), while typing this comment on a mach
by sametmax 7y ago
We all live in contradictions. That doesn't make you a bad person, just human.
You are yourself against slavery (I hope:)), while typing this comment on a machine with some parts made by slave children.
If you go that way, everybody is an hypocrite, and we are loosing the sense of the word.
- lidHanteyk 7y agoHardly! Hypocrisy should always be examined. Let's take your example. I am currently typing on a computer, it's true, and indeed it likely contains minerals and parts made by slaves. The computer was sold to me by local wage-slaves. The computer was produced not just by humans, but also by robots[0]. We can thus see that slavery is not ended in the world, and that there are several axes (geographic, economic, (in)human) upon which we can still improve our efforts to understand and end slavery. We become better people by learning, by examining, and by seeking to eliminate hypocritical beliefs within ourselves. [0] The word "robot" has a fascinating history of its own. This quote is a good portal to the past: "Sulla isn't a person, Miss Glory, she's a robot."