(August 16, 2015 at 5:46 pm)Drich Wrote: If all slavery is wrong we are all in trouble, because modern life would not be possible if not for active modern slaves.
Argument from final consequences fallacy. How do you know we're not all "in trouble"? And what is "trouble"? Just because a morally wrong act is committed - doesn't mean there are immediate, perceivable repercussions.
Of course - that thing about "active modern slaves" - that's just demagogic bullsh*t and you know it. Whatever you mean by "modern slaves" has virtually no resemblance to actual slavery - unless you mean actual slavery, which - sure - still happens, but on an infinitely smaller scale, compared to what it was when Christian authorities actively, supported, participated in and benefited from slave trade.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
