(December 19, 2014 at 10:51 am)Drich Wrote: These people are working/slaving for one reason. To provide a consumer based soceity with the products it buys. There is no other reason for them being there. That's what makes you responsiable for their conditions.You claim that this is "direct" support for slavery. But you are stretching the definition of slavery and wildly stretching the definition of "direct" in order to imply that we are no different from you in supporting slavery, we are simply hypocrites for speaking out against it.
If you can stretch these definitions so much, how many ways can we stretch them to claim that people support other behaviors "directly"? You have climbed onto a very slippery slope in an attempt to justify slavery as a concept, to the point of pretending that it's some sort of necessity. And all so that you can downplay the fact that the Bible doesn't universally condemn slavery.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
