PS. even saying that slavery is better than killing of prisoners is a moral judgment, as it assumes both that slavery is preferable to death and that doing unpleasant things to people is bad.
--- On Thu, 11/20/08, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> The difference between Marx's morality and the moral
> imperative is that it is relative to the possibilities of
> the given stage of development. It is well captured by
> Engels, when he says that even (ancient) slavery was an
> advance over what went before (killing of prisoners), though
> at a higher stage of development, of course, persisting in
> slavery is depraved.
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