You can go back as far as the cavemen as far as I'm concerned. What is compassionate about saying to a person, "I own you. I own you and your wife and your children. You will work for me without pay and I can do whatever I want to you and there is nothing you can do about it?" Please. Explain to me how slavery can be considered a compassionate institution by any definition of the word. I really, really want to know.
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and under a just God, can not long retain it." - Abraham Lincoln, 1859
“Please. Explain to me how slavery can be considered a compassionate institution by any definition of the word. I really, really want to know.”
Again, equality spoke only to the origins of the institution being founded of compassion and left the moral conclusion to the reader. The question to which you seek an answer is a question each must answer for himself.
What is compassionate about saying to a person, “I own you. I own you and your wife and your children. You will work for me without pay and I can do whatever I want to you and there is nothing you can do about it?”
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Pretty much sounds like out current government. Why are you so obsessed with slavery? It’s over, it was over long before you were even born. Stop feeling guilty, you are eating yourself up inside.