(October 12, 2021 at 10:49 am)ayost Wrote:(October 12, 2021 at 11:24 am)pocaracas Wrote: It may feel like a dodge to you, but I'm just doing my best to be objective in situations for which I have very little context.
What little I know is that slavers in North America often used the fact that slavery is condoned in the bible as justification for their behavior.
Fair enough to your first sentence. I can see that you're trying to have a standard and apply it objectively. That standard only works when people like you and I are policing each other. Once an crazy dictator comes along the system gets dicey. Obviously, your standards assume not a crazy dictator, haha. Unless you're actually Kim Jong-un and I don't know it, haha.
I think we can agree it's an abuse of the Bible in your second sentence. I don't think we should use this kind of argument because you and I know the difference. For example, I don't fault atheists because Jeffrey Dahmer used atheism to validate eating people. Clearly that's an abuse of atheism.
(October 12, 2021 at 11:24 am)pocaracas Wrote: That seems like a very slippery slope, where a person can be made to be indebted indefinitely.
Luckily, there are laws in place (in most places) that prevent even the type of slavery that you would be ok with.
It was definitely limited by law to 6 years, so it could not be indefinite.
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