Slavery (on Thursdays)

[Huggy Bear]

You are really comparing internship with slavery?
OK lets do that:
Slave: owned as property, not paid, can be beaten to an inch of death, cannot leave whenever they want

Intern: Not owned as property, not paid (sometimes), laws protecting them against being beaten, can leave whenever they want.

Next time, how about you think before you type?

I'm always shocked as to how many times I have to correct religious comparisons to make them align with reality. But, since I apparently have to do it again, here's a short list of things interns can do that slaves can't:

Apparently you guys never read what I posted

1. Leave.

"Jewish law required that a slave could go free in the seventh year of service"

2. Expect not to get beaten.

"Brutal treatment of any slave, whether Hebrew or heathen, secures his immediate liberty."

3. Move on to a paid position later.

see number 1

4. Be protected by the laws that also protect their employers.

see 1 and 2

5. Earn money in other jobs.

I guess you got me there.

6. Expect not to be killed by their employers.

again see number 2

7. Expect not to be passed around from one employer to another like property.

"In Hebrew law, the slave was not a thing, but a human being; he was not the chattel of a master who had unlimited power over him."

8. Leave.

number 1

like I said the word for slave and servant in ancient Hebrew are the same, in fact the word "slave only appears twice in the King James version of the Bible. Otherwise it uses the words "servant" or "Bond servant"

Definition
bond·ser·vant (bŏnd′sûr′vənt)
1. A person obligated to service without wages.

in other words an intern.