Ethical foundations of the left

Luke Benjamin Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Mon Jul 23 12:12:33 PDT 2001



>Absolutely nothing could persuade me that slavery is better than freedom,
>even though this is remarkably difficult to show.

What if it could be shown (and, although it's not true in this world, it's conceptually possible) that the slaves much preferred their lot to freedom and also that they were able to attain more of "the stuff that makes life worth living" under slavery?

-- Luke



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