RE: Why Do We Think Slavery is Evil?
June 24, 2015 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2015 at 2:23 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(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. You can make the emotional arguments. [...]
By your "logic" - no one can make a strong case against rape either. So someone gets raped - so what? They and their family will be distraught - but that's just emotions, right? Who gives a s**t? They may become pregnant - but then you can just terminate the pregnancy, kill the child or raise it - unless you can give me a non-emotional argument against any of those options.
Humans are not machines. Emotions are a fact of life. Ignoring/dismissing them leads to nothing good. Emotions start revolutions - and those are rarely in society's best interest.
And of course - as I mentioned before - slavery is not economically viable, when you can hire poor people to work for pennies only when there is work to be done; and if they get sick, or die - that's their problem. New ones will come the next day. That's pretty un-emotional, the way I see it.
"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
