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Slaves can be bought and sold. Their children can be bought and sold. Slaves can be physically punished and even killed without legal recourse. They have no rig
by magpi3 5y ago
Slaves can be bought and sold. Their children can be bought and sold. Slaves can be physically punished and even killed without legal recourse. They have no rights. They are property.
And it still exists, so the modern equivalent of slavery is still slavery.
What you are talking about is the social obligations of being part of civilization. Yes, there is no free lunch. We must all work to live unless someone else is willing to foot the bill for us. But if that is slavery, then literally everyone in the world with a job is a slave and the word loses its meaning.
- Valakas_ 5y agoThere can be different kinds of slavery. Let's not get bogged down by details shall we? If a situation fits for 80% and there is no other single word that better describes it, i see you would just do nothing and leave a clearly wrong situation in confusion and undefined. People need a word and a clarity of meaning to rally behind it. Slavery fits really well, even if some things don't fit the historical original definition of it. If you can come up with a better fitting word, be my guest, otherwise please don't stand in the way while people are trying to raise awareness for the tragic lack of freedom that so many of us experience.