(June 24, 2015 at 2:12 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(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.
I don't agree, rape can bring physical and emotional harm to a person. A woman especially may have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy or stds. So I guess the biggest argument for me against the biblical slavery is that the master was allowed to beat the slave. But then again I make the point that in a Hebrews case they would have known this stipulation in advance of their going into that agreement. So they must have not felt it was immoral that they could be beaten for one reason or another
