Ethical foundations of the left

[Justin Schwartz]

Read Herzog's "Happy Slaves." But look, I said it is actually very hard to 
show that slavery per se (the ownership of other human beings as property) 
and not its normal incidents (abuse, oppression, exploitation, etc.) is 
evil. I don't want to get into the argument now. But it's my view that 
slavery per se is an almost umitigatable evil, even if it's very nice, 
voluntary chosen and accepted, and materially better than the alternatives. 
And, dogmatically, nothing will change my mind on that. Moreover, I believe 
this is a fairly common view.

--jks


>
> >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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