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Worth a reminder that we don't have to do all-or-nothing. Aristotle has some good/useful points (eudaimonia) and some that we probably want to leave behind (sla
by throw0101d 2y ago
Worth a reminder that we don't have to do all-or-nothing. Aristotle has some good/useful points (eudaimonia) and some that we probably want to leave behind (slavery).
- whatever1 2y agoWe never left slavery behind, we just moved it overseas.
- jumpoddly 2y agoAnd equally abhorrently, as the 13th amendment and now California can attest, to the incarcerated > Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. “Californians voted against outlawing slavery. Why did proposition 6 fail?” https://www.kqed.org/news/12013392/californians-voted-against-outlawing-slavery-why-is-prop-6-failing https://www.kqed.org/news/12013392/californians-voted-agains...