Re: Call Me A Liberal

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From: trebor
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:22

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Russell Senior <seniorr@aracnet.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Tim" == Tim  <tim@stonerise.com> writes:
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>Tim> What gives us the right...  It's simple.  It is precisely the
>Tim> same source of well of rights that each nation draws their powers
>Tim> from.  It's called "self interests"...
>
>Tim> [...]
>
>Tim> There is no moral obligation to do otherwise.
>
>Great!  Let's reinstitute slavery then and be done with it.

Except in the most abstract sense, did slavery ever really go away?

Life for the vast majority of slaves was a meaningless, exhausting
drudgery with death as the only release. How is that different from
working at Walmart or Target?

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