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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (40255)12/3/2001 8:23:55 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Keep in mind that this slavery concept arose in two sort of simultaneous contexts.

First was cloning modified humans to be slaves. Now you might not like designing and then cloning people with the specific intent of making them sufficiently docile and obedient to be slaves, but once you have done that, I'm not sure it has any negative impact on the slaveowner to own them. They would be looked at like vacuum cleaners -- nobody looks down on my family because we have a vacuum cleaner.

The second context was that of those convicted of heinous crimes, where the choice of enslaving them (basically, bringing back road gangs?) as an alternative to simply tossing them in a cell and forgetting about them has a certain appeal.

And third, keep in mind that a number of tongues were firmly planted in cheeks during this whole discussion.
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