(June 24, 2015 at 6:44 pm)IATIA Wrote:No, you won't find anybody who would be happy to be kidnapped away from their home, never to see their family again, dragged to another country and forced to work. How could they have been working FOR room and board that they wouldn't have needed if they'd been left in their own home?(June 24, 2015 at 6:32 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: This may be a step up from American slavery where no master ws ever punished for killing his slaves, but would you exonerate a man who beat you if you lived on for a day or two? Maybe I shouldn't ask you that since you seem to think it's okay to treat others in a way you wouldn't want to be treated.
I do not think anyone has actually said it that way but, if I go downtown now, I could probably find someone that would be quite happy working for room and board. Would they be considered a slave? May perhaps you should tell us what you think constitutes slavery.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
