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Is a home and belongings enough to emancipate a slave?

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• kkfx 3y ago
  No, but you have to define slavery and freedom. My definition of freedom is "being able to do something at my will" PLUS "without dramas". If I own a home I can't relocate as easy as if I rent, of course, that's a slavery. BUT the home it's under my control and I can sell it. I have insurances if something goes wrong, and I can choose between many of them, the home is inside a State, I can't have the same home in multiple States but the State is formally a Democracy (not much in reality, but that's another broad topic) and it's stable enough, so I can sell the home and change state before being trapped in a harsh dictatorship. On contrary if I live on trains I have not much choice if a train get canceled let's say because of a storm and that's happen while I'm in a mountain area only with bank cards and no connection and no hotel nearby. As a simple example. We are all a bit free and a bit slave, the point how much freedom we have and how dramatic is exercise it or not.