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Isn’t trading humans one of the wrong professions to lead (contra right livelihood)? Then I don’t see how buying slaves could be right or neutral.
by nativecoinc 4y ago
Isn’t trading humans one of the wrong professions to lead (contra right livelihood)? Then I don’t see how buying slaves could be right or neutral.
- astrange 4y agoTrading them yes, but that only excludes trading them, not having them, accepting them as gifts, organizing your society around feudalism and serfdom, etc. (At one point Buddha says monasteries must accept gifts of slaves, other times that individual monks who must not accept them. He is sometimes maybe inconsistent.)
- nativecoinc 4y agoHow interesting. And inconsistent!