[Tribune7]

I don't think jailed prisoners who work for more or less nothing, and whose labor can be liquidated by the state should be competing with free market labor for any job whatsover, no matter how menial.

Does this mean you believe in an absolute morality after all? :-)

So you feel that there's nothing intrinsically wrong with slavery?

No more so than other other sort of punishment. I do think there is something intrinsically wrong with racism or breeding people to be slaves.

[donh]

I don't think jailed prisoners who work for more or less nothing, and whose labor can be liquidated by the state should be competing with free market labor for any job whatsover, no matter how menial.

Does this mean you believe in an absolute morality after all? :-)

No. ;->

So you feel that there's nothing intrinsically wrong with slavery?

No more so than other other sort of punishment. I do think there is something intrinsically wrong with racism or breeding people to be slaves.

So...you'd see no moral problem with returning to, say, debtor's prison, indentured servitude, variations on the notion of galley slaves? Vast farms of convicted drug users employed by the state as plantation slaves? Remind me not to vote for you early and often.