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I am making the argument that there's a difference between economic slavery and treatment of human life as property. Some cities reached a point, where most of

by jmduke 13y ago

I am making the argument that there's a difference between economic slavery and treatment of human life as property. Some cities reached a point, where most of the city business were ran by ex-workers, that earned enough to start their own. This implies that Brazilian workers would have been allowed to leave their job at any time. Could they? I am trying to say that you cannot go by absolutes. I think the ability to purchase another human being and then be legally allowed to kill him is absolutely bad.

speeder 13y ago
slavery do not always mean that you can kill someone. Many times in history when slavery was legal, it was forbidden to kill the slave, in fact when slavery is NOT legal that this is more frequent (for example here in Brazil, I already did some research on present day slavery, and here most slaves end dead, usually killed after they are not useful anymore, so that they don't tell the police about the slave owner). I think that yes, being allowed to arbitrarily kill anyone (pay attention to arbitrarily) is evil, this applies to US drone strikes. But arbitrariety is not evil, neither is kill someone, the combination of them that might be.
- jiggy2011 13y ago
  Where do you think the line should be drawn? Would you be allowed to make your slave eat off the floor because he/she did not work fast enough or refused to perform a sexual favor for you? Would a slave be able to terminate the arrangement under some conditions? If the slave believes that they are being treated in a way that violates the slavery regulations do they have a right to bring charges against their master, do they have a right to legal council (if so , who pays)? What about offspring of the slave, can the master decide who the slave will breed with (if at all). Do the offspring of the slave become property of the master?

by jmduke 13y ago

speeder 13y ago

slavery do not always mean that you can kill someone. Many times in history when slavery was legal, it was forbidden to kill the slave, in fact when slavery is NOT legal that this is more frequent (for example here in Brazil, I already did some research on present day slavery, and here most slaves end dead, usually killed after they are not useful anymore, so that they don't tell the police about the slave owner). I think that yes, being allowed to arbitrarily kill anyone (pay attention to arbitrarily) is evil, this applies to US drone strikes. But arbitrariety is not evil, neither is kill someone, the combination of them that might be.

jiggy2011 13y ago
Where do you think the line should be drawn? Would you be allowed to make your slave eat off the floor because he/she did not work fast enough or refused to perform a sexual favor for you? Would a slave be able to terminate the arrangement under some conditions? If the slave believes that they are being treated in a way that violates the slavery regulations do they have a right to bring charges against their master, do they have a right to legal council (if so , who pays)? What about offspring of the slave, can the master decide who the slave will breed with (if at all). Do the offspring of the slave become property of the master?