(May 11, 2012 at 8:40 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: How about the workers in china? They certainly have no obligations to work for anyone by whip. But they have to. And they have to comply with whatever salary their master deems appropriate for them.
Quote:So, they've no obligation to work, they get a salary for the work and they are not treated as property. Doesn't sound like slavery to me.
[quote='kılıç_mehmet' pid='284463' dateline='1336740047']If they didn't, these values would not exist today.
No, as indicated, values can be forced onto others, which would lead to its survival.
[quote='kılıç_mehmet' pid='284463' dateline='1336740047']But they do, just as I do. If they ceased to exist, so would we. We'd simply be absorbed by some other people who is able to hold on to it's own values.
So, to eliminate any threat to your society's identity, you force your values on anyone who wouldn't willingly accept them?