RE: How Do We Behave?
May 27, 2011 at 9:54 am
(This post was last modified: May 27, 2011 at 9:56 am by Napoléon.)
(May 26, 2011 at 5:20 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Why not Nap? Argument?
1. Not all slaves were slaves because of crimes, some were born slaves and as such had no inherent choice in the matter. This is wrong, i'm sure you would agree. Many others were slaves because of conquest. If you look at the romans there are numerous occasions in which they captured slaves from their times in europe and africa and these people had no choice on the matter. There are countless other examples of this too, like the european colonists who brought back slaves from africa.
2. Criminals in prisons and doing community service are not treated anything like what slaves were treated like thousands of years ago. I think we all know what kind of things slaves had to endure in human history. Prisons of today are often more cushy than being on the outside, many prisoners actually prefer to be inside, I seriously doubt many of them would be the same if it was a life time of slavery they were offered.
3. Community service isn't exactly like the 'full time job' that a slave has. Community service is purely a punishment for wrongdoing and they don't have to work from dawn till dusk doing the most demeaning tasks humans could possibly do. Sure they have to do some crappy jobs like litter picking but it ain't exactly the same.
4. Slaves are OWNED. Prisoners are still individuals.
If you are seriously trying and compare slavery to community service I think you are off your fucking rocker.
*EDIT*
I think Girlysprite also gave some very good reasons.
