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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (8319)	3/13/2001 6:22:59 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

If you consider the slaves animals (which they were considered) you can see it was as capitalistic as any other kind of animal husbandly. But slaves where (and the people who are still slaves now are) human. They are animals too, just as the slave owners were/are but they are also something more. BTW - Since you consider me speciest and unjustly human centered to consider people more important then other animals, do you consider human ownership of animals to be slavery? A slave country can be considered capitalist quite easily. Capitalism does not require you not to trade in human capital. In fact, it requires it. Workers, slaves, all human capital. I work for TRW. TRW pays me money in exchange for my services and I voluntarily accept this trade. Slaves do not have this free market choice. Slaves are forced, not just by the slave owner but also by the government, to do work. A person owns him or herself. Slavery is the seizure of control of your body by the government or by those it authorizes. It is not free market capitalism. Tim