“Again, what possible evidence is there of slavery beginning as an altruistic act? Slavery, from the moment it began, was a barbaric act of one person oppressing another. There is not, and never has been, any compassion in it at all.”
Again, the issue is the ORIGIN of slavery vs death. Those origins are found thousands of years before America existed. One conquered person would prefer death over enslavement, another would choose a life of enslavement and see the act of his life being spared as compassionate.
I do not speak to compassion in enslavement or lack thereof. That is a question each must answer for himself.
Complete idiocy.