RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?
June 24, 2015 at 1:12 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 1:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 24, 2015 at 12:18 pm)Won2blv Wrote: I don't believe that anyone can really make a strong case as to why slavery in on its own is evil.
That an argument begins with a subjective value judgement such as "do you want to be a slave" doesn't actually -mean- that the argument is an appeal to emotion, or even fallacious. -All- value judgments begin this way, and -all- arguments pursuant to those value judgments originate from this point.
The key is this, as it is in -any- argument, after having agreed that you do not wish to be a slave...what can be reasonably and logically inferred from that starting point, can you make a slave of another?
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