Slavery

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I am just curious to see if anyone actually answers this something other than "No."

I encourage anyone who votes #1-4 to explain wy.

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No, I don't consider the income tax to have been a good thing.

Income tax? What?

I do hope that you are not attempting to compare the income tax to slavery.

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The fact that half the people here find good aspects to slavery bewilders me.

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The fact that half the people here find good aspects to slavery bewilders me.

I was being sarcastic with my outrageous statements.

Yes, I know; I'm referring to the poll.

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There is nothing really wrong with slavery, provided: People are not born into it, they can opt-out as per agreement, and are treated fairly.

If you willingly go into it and don't have to otherwise, and your owners are required to treat you fairly during your time there, I wouldn't call that "slavery"; I would call it "volunteer employment".

It is slavery if they get your vote and are can restrict you to their property.

I suppose, but it's not really slavery in the sense that most people are talking about in this topic.  I think the "abomination" we're talking about, as some people have called it, is the idea of forcing people into involuntary servitude.

I don't think I have a problem with that either, if the people are convicted criminals.

You're really going into semantics here. You know very well what we're talking about.

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I say again, where has the last 40 years got them?

It has gotten them to the point where it is perfectly acceptable to be a successful black person to most people.

I think that is something.

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I don't remember what I was going for here, but in my defense, I was 14

Kind of surreal to read this though, like watching yourself sleepwalking.