(July 12, 2012 at 11:21 pm)Taqiyya Mockingbird Wrote: [quote='Drich' pid='309440' dateline='1342141230']
Then have you renounced your modern life style?........
Perhaps you simply do not know the defination of the term.
A Red Herring is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic
B37 said
Quote: "It was ALWAYS BAD. It did benefit those who utilized it for resource gain, but just because something benefits someone doesn't make it moral, it just means it was used."
I pointed out that most (including mine) current life styles would not be possiable, if not for modern day slave labors. So i asked if his verbal 'outrage' was matched by how he lived his life. (Was slavery truly so bad all the time that he would protest the benfits of slave labor?) Or did he look the otherway because the modern day slaves did not match the picture of the pre civial war slaves he had been taught to look for/ Was he content in reaping the benfits of slavery because it did not look like what he was told to think about slavery.
The point being, if you all have drank the Flav-o-Aide (Grape) and completely accepted that slavery was a thing of the past and can only take shape the way it did in pre civial war america, then what other forms of Slavery/CONTROL have you sold yourselves to?
I also directly answer a question as to how one could believe that Slavery to be a 'good thing' and how people would line up for months and years to get an oppertunity to sell themselves to a company now. the same thing applied when the bible was written. Except there weren't city dumps to scavenage for food nor were their cardboard boxes or ANY type of state sponsered welfare. (Nor any rights, before God issued them in a decree given to Moses.)So why would people sell themselves to rich men? Because then like now it is/was better than the alternitive.
Question ALL THINGS, (not just the questionable ones.) and hold on to what is good. Don't fool yourselves or believe the lies. Slavery is alive and well and if you are a blind consumer, you are apart of the modern day chains. I say this not to condemn, but to raise awareness to what the modern face of slavery looks like. It goes beyond goods and services. It is engrain in out soceity, our beliefs, our education system, our very way of life. What is slavery? It is control. Control you most happily give to the system designed to subdue you, and any real independant thought. What does it give in return? A sence of superiority and a very high horse to sit on to look down on all of those who do not intently focous on the defination of slavery you all have given yourselves to. If your 'morality' is wrong about slavery (One of it's most honored and righteous cries for absolute yeilding reverance) what else is your sense of 'morality' wrong about? If morality allows you to rename something like slavery or just has you look the other way (Because face it, we all know deep down why stuff from china cost so much less than stuff Made in the USA even after 6 to 8 weeks of shippingand going through 1/2 a dozen middle men who have alll marked up the price alittle.) What other 'Foundational' righteous truths have been compermised by being renamed?
