Maybe I'm misreading her, but I thought she meant slavery AS AN INSTITUTION, not slavery as it affects the individual slave. It's like the difference between being against death and not wanting to die.
--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> That's all Jenny was saying too, I think. I don't
> see assuming a
> person at any time would rather not be beaten and
> forced to perform
> hard labor as ascribing our values to another age.
> And with evidence
> of revolts like the Spartacists we don't have to
> assume.
>
>
Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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