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To: The Philosopher who wrote (17341)	6/25/2001 6:53:18 PM
From: dave rose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

<<<Were slave owners killers if they whipped to death disobedient slaves who they didn't think were persons?>> Do you agree that there is a huge difference between a group of cells (potentially a human) and a slave? What a comparison. Regards

To: The Philosopher who wrote (17341)	6/26/2001 8:22:30 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Were slave owners killers if they whipped to death disobedient slaves who they didn't think were persons? By their standards then, or ours? Should the definition of what is a person be up to the individual, or up to society as a whole? But the slaveowners - especially if you go back to, say, Roman times or earlier - were completely following the definitions of their society... the individual might well have been far more lenient than society. And even slaves aspired to gain their freedom - so they could then have slaves of their own... who knows how they treated them?