Hi Brees,
I believe that Leviticus also has passages on the proper treatment of slaves. What's amazing in the US is that our media and our academia pretend that slavery was something invented by southern cotton farmers about 200 years ago... as if it never happened before or since.
In my opinion slavery is the normal human condition. The pyramids are a symbol of human civilization... with few on the top and many on the bottom.
The US originally tried in a halfhearted way to give people their freedom, but the people have been giving it back ever since, because the average person would really rather be a slave than a free.
It might have helped if by "men" in the founders' documents they'd meant "all people," instead of "landed gentry." For example, in the phrase, "...all men are created equal..." they really meant, "...all landed gentry are created equal..."
Of course today the emphasis is on ever-greater personal safety so we can predict less and less freedom if this pathology continues down its primrose path.
If you check the tenets of most religions, they're based upon servitude and sacrifice; the model religious character is a servant, not a libertine. Aren't libertines socially ostracized?
It ain't easy bein' sleazy...
The only moral philosophy will reject slavery and the attendant attitudes of both master and servant. Nature - not the capricious and arbitrary writings of some despot or parliament - sets the limits on human behavior. The only thing one who is dedicated to liberty must keep in mind is that all actions have their consequences.
A true American rejects tyranny. This means advocating the informed consent of all concerned parties in each and every human interaction. Anything less is simply immoral.
FWIW
Andy
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