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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (74625)2/19/2000 11:44:00 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
If we have respect for those qualities which define humanity, we will not sanction slavery, since it reduces people to the status of cattle. Aristotle argued that there are natural slaves. While it may be true that there are those more suited to servile positions, the very success of democratic regimes puts the lie to the idea that they need to be treated as wards, and under perpetual guardianship. That, of course, is the difference between real slavery and "wage slavery": that the "wage slave" retains substantial control over his affairs. In other words, whether Aristotle is right to move from the less controversial observation that some people are suited to servility to the more controversial justification of slavery hinges on a factual question, that in modern times has been largely resolved......

I have always thought that absoluteness of the fundamental terms, tempered by the qualifications involved in their application to circumstance, was a better way to look at the problem......
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