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The idea that an individual has "[the] right to protect oneself and one’s property" is fundamentally inconsistent with the existence of slavery throughout most

The idea that an individual has "[the] right to protect oneself and one’s property" is fundamentally inconsistent with the existence of slavery throughout most of humanity's history.

snowgrove 5y ago
Obviously, but that isn’t what the GP comment asserted and it isn’t the statement I replied to.
kqr 5y ago
It's not, though. The Roman idea of protecting oneself and one's property extended to one's slaves (which counted as property).