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Slavery |ˈslāvərē|
noun
the state of being a slave : thousands had been sold into slavery.
• the practice or system of owning slaves.
• a condition compared to that of a slave in respect of exhausting labor or restricted freedom : female domestic slavery.
• excessive dependence on or devotion to something : slavery to tradition.

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slave |slāv|
noun chiefly historical
a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
• a person who works very hard without proper remuneration or appreciation : by the time I was ten, I had become her slave, doing all the housework.
• a person who is excessively dependent upon or controlled by something : the poorest people of the world are slaves to the banks | she was no slave to fashion.
• a device, or part of one, directly controlled by another : [as adj. ] a slave cassette deck. Compare with master 1 .
• an ant captured in its pupal state by an ant of another species, for which it becomes a worker.

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A person who is legal property of another and is forced to obey them. That is what slavery means... and 'minors' are legal property of their guardians. I do not slap in the face anyone: a slaveholder

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slaveholder |ˈslāvˌhōldər|
noun
an owner of slaves.

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can be a fair and great person... or they could be the most malevolent being in the universe... or anything in between. You are now committing the same fallacy that Rhizo tried to press upon me above. You also speak of slavery as though it no longer happens... while it still occurs today.

You are the one in need of a reality check, as you imagine slavery to automatically be terrible... It often is... but this is not true universally. Far from it... in the example of the slavery that still occurs in the USA (People owning children): This can in uncommon cases be a good thing. More often than not: slavery is almost benign. Far more rarely: slavery is a good thing.

You see... humans are not just some substance to be owned... anything that can choose for itself has the right of not being owned... to do so is an infringement upon the right to choose. That is all slavery is... and it is horrible for that reason.