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Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?

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Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?
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RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?
June 24, 2015 at 12:25 pm
(June 24, 2015 at 11:48 am)Rhondazvous Wrote: [...] But this question asks instead from where did we get the a priori idea to when god clearly had no problem with it.

It's very simple - it turned out, that in the industrial era it's way cheaper to hire nominally "free" workers for minimal wages, instead of paying for slaves, their transport, food, shelter and medicine. Moral objections were an afterthought.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?

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Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 24, 2015 at 11:48 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Minimalist - June 24, 2015 at 12:16 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 12:21 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Minimalist - June 24, 2015 at 5:56 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 11:49 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 24, 2015 at 1:34 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Minimalist - June 24, 2015 at 2:06 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 24, 2015 at 7:32 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Minimalist - June 25, 2015 at 1:58 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 26, 2015 at 1:44 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 12:18 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Tonus - June 24, 2015 at 12:34 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 1:52 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Tonus - June 24, 2015 at 2:21 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 2:40 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Tonus - June 25, 2015 at 7:44 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by KevinM1 - June 24, 2015 at 12:43 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 2:43 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Nope - June 24, 2015 at 2:49 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 3:09 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Angrboda - June 24, 2015 at 3:02 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 25, 2015 at 2:05 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by FatAndFaithless - June 24, 2015 at 12:20 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Homeless Nutter - June 24, 2015 at 12:25 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Nope - June 24, 2015 at 12:41 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Wyrd of Gawd - June 25, 2015 at 2:11 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by vorlon13 - June 24, 2015 at 1:09 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 1:42 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 24, 2015 at 6:32 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by IATIA - June 24, 2015 at 6:44 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 24, 2015 at 8:48 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Metis - June 24, 2015 at 8:52 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by IATIA - June 24, 2015 at 9:26 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 24, 2015 at 9:51 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by rexbeccarox - June 24, 2015 at 10:02 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 25, 2015 at 9:32 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Crossless1 - June 24, 2015 at 1:15 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Angrboda - June 24, 2015 at 1:17 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 1:38 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Angrboda - June 24, 2015 at 1:44 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by robvalue - June 24, 2015 at 3:24 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 2:03 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 2:48 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by SteelCurtain - June 24, 2015 at 3:06 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Won2blv - June 24, 2015 at 3:15 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by KevinM1 - June 24, 2015 at 9:35 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by rexbeccarox - June 24, 2015 at 4:07 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Esquilax - June 24, 2015 at 5:47 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by tonechaser77 - June 24, 2015 at 4:18 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Simon Moon - June 24, 2015 at 6:05 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 24, 2015 at 8:17 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by IATIA - June 24, 2015 at 6:26 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Nope - June 24, 2015 at 6:40 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 24, 2015 at 8:28 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by robvalue - June 24, 2015 at 11:59 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Jenny A - June 24, 2015 at 9:58 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 25, 2015 at 6:32 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Godschild - June 24, 2015 at 11:28 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Tonus - June 25, 2015 at 7:48 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Cato - June 24, 2015 at 11:43 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 25, 2015 at 10:13 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 25, 2015 at 10:38 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 8:31 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Cato - June 26, 2015 at 8:47 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 9:29 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Cato - June 26, 2015 at 9:48 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 10:08 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Cato - June 26, 2015 at 10:31 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 10:43 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Cato - June 26, 2015 at 11:44 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 26, 2015 at 2:48 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 29, 2015 at 8:43 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by KevinM1 - June 25, 2015 at 1:28 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 9:21 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 26, 2015 at 9:39 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 9:43 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 26, 2015 at 10:36 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by FatAndFaithless - June 25, 2015 at 10:14 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Rhondazvous - June 25, 2015 at 5:21 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by dyresand - June 25, 2015 at 10:03 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 9:23 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Mr.wizard - June 25, 2015 at 6:23 pm
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 9:25 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by robvalue - June 26, 2015 at 2:47 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by Drich - June 26, 2015 at 9:40 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by robvalue - June 26, 2015 at 10:33 am
RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil? - by KevinM1 - June 26, 2015 at 11:31 am

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