(June 24, 2015 at 1:17 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: The greatest good for the most people results when people are given the maximum freedom consistent with an ordered society. Slavery denies this freedom to a significant proportion of the populace and thus results in less than the greatest good for the most number of people. Is this an argument that appeals to emotion? Certainly. Is it an illicit or fallacious appeal to emotion? No.
Then I would believe that a maximum amount of freedom would be a very hard bar to set. Its possible to be a slave and also have a measure of freedom. Again, I think back on the biblical accounts of slavery. For one, with Hebrews did voluntarily enter into this agreement. So they didn't feel like it was a morally improper thing in of its own to have or be a slave. And two, I don't think that they were checking out flights on Kayak.com hoping to get away to Boca for the weekend. Slaves or not, they didn't have much free time to roam about. So what freedoms were they denied?
