there4eyeM
unlicensed metaphysician
- Jul 5, 2012
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If all the teacher did was ask to list the positive and negative aspects of slavery, where is the wrong? The negative side could be endless, while one could easily judge the other side devoid of points. This could easily be viewed as testing the evaluative abilities of students to read and reason without automatic, useless emotion.
Of course slavery was always wrong on human terms, but it was also practiced in all ages by virtually all cultures. No one was prosecuted after slavery was abolished for having had slaves previously.
I don't understand how people ever thought they could 'own' another person. I don't understand why people deal with women as inferior to men. I don't know why we tolerate this in the world today. Why continue to chew the old bone of slavery when a far greater number of people are oppressed before our very eyes right now. It is at least hypocritical to be scandalized by an institution that is now illegal and gone while allowing greater wrong to continue today. Where is the force to free our sisters?
Of course slavery was always wrong on human terms, but it was also practiced in all ages by virtually all cultures. No one was prosecuted after slavery was abolished for having had slaves previously.
I don't understand how people ever thought they could 'own' another person. I don't understand why people deal with women as inferior to men. I don't know why we tolerate this in the world today. Why continue to chew the old bone of slavery when a far greater number of people are oppressed before our very eyes right now. It is at least hypocritical to be scandalized by an institution that is now illegal and gone while allowing greater wrong to continue today. Where is the force to free our sisters?