(February 15, 2016 at 6:13 pm)Drich Wrote:(February 13, 2016 at 2:09 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Yeah, that's the part I really don't get with him.You don't get it because you don't ever hang around to discuss the final point.
We know what wage slavery is. We find it immoral and do what we can to eliminate it. Yet, somehow, we're bad because we live in Western civilization (just like him), even though we acknowledge wage slavery, how inhumane it can be, etc.
But he's somehow more moral than the rest of us because he simply doesn't sweat it because it's part of god's rules.
Amazing. And frightening.
Once we identify slavery in modern life the question then becomes is it needed? Can life go one in the world where the slave works, and can it go on in the world buying slave made products???
the answer is no.
Don't you think that if we had an economic structure that did not COMPLETELY depend on slavery we would have at least tried it in one of the countries of the world one time since the dawn of civilization???
This is why you don't understand. You blank out of the conversation, 1/2 way through and come back in after the final conclusion is made missing the correlating argument.
If you want to say all slavery is bad fine. All slavery is bad. Now figure out how to feed 5 billion people without the economic structure and support slavery provides.
That is my point sport! WE DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING ELSE!!!
Necessity does not imply morality one way or another. Moreover, the necessity of slavery hasn't been proven, either. Indeed, we seem to be ever so slowly moving away from such practices (abject slavery -> feudalism -> pure wage slavery) due to a conflux of our ideas about working, workers' rights, and how we view the Other changing and technology advancing.
Finally, I actually have a life and responsibilities outside of this forum. I'm not beholden to reply to you.
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