Assuming Judeo/Christian values and a Christian nation, slavery is wholly and completely evil and absolutely intolerable.
By extension, the weakening of the role of Judeo/Christian values in American society makes it entirely possible that slavery could return to America, albeit not in the form that we saw previously.
It's clear on reading the Bible that portions of the book imply that slavery is tolerated.
This is a very insightful point. And it is relevant to the question of "health care reform" currently rolling its way through Congress.
Have you ever wondered why of all the public services the communist countries (e.g. Cuba) always boast of their free health care for all? The brain-dead dummies in the media are always touting the Cuban system over ours because of its health care system even though by all measures the Cuban system is backward and crude.
But the reason the communists give free health care is important too. Just as a farmer gives free health care to his animals so they can serve him so the ruling elite in the socialist countries give free health care to the workers so they can serve the state.
Slaves in the antebellum South had free health care. They had free health care because it was in the economic interest of their masters to keep them healthy enough to work. This is the logic that drives Obama and the left.
So join the chorus in the press and bleat like a sheeple. The massuh is gunna give us all free health care. And all we have to do is surrender our freedom and be willing to live like a slave.
By extension, the weakening of the role of Judeo/Christian values in American society makes it entirely possible that slavery could return to America, albeit not in the form that we saw previously.
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The current plan is to enslave all the most productive people and make them serve the elitest oligarchy who will rule and will, in turn, dispense bread to the rabble to keep them quiet. I think it worked in Rome for a short while.
When I retired at the early age of 59 I was half a slave. I was probably **more** than half a slave if all the hidden sales taxes, fees, and assesments were calculated in.
OK...So,...We still have the freedom to play the role of John Galt. ( In my case “Jane” Galt)...But...If the government can make a citizen more than half a slave, this government already has the power to make us 100% slaves.
Most Freepers spend a good chunk of the year laboring involuntarily for the government and its beneficiaries.
I agree with you, and think it won't be too much longer; perhaps in our lifetimes. One of the things driving it will be libertarian thought that claims we "own" our bodies. My sentiment has always been that no one can have ownership vested in another human being. If, however, we have a property right vested in ourselves does not imply that we have a right to dispose of ourselves by selling, or transferring, that right to another person?
The first step toward slavery will be, I predict, the return of gladiatorial contests to the death, willingly engaged in by the contestants.
Slavery might not be evil; I’m not sure. Cruel treatment of slaves is definitely evil. There are those who would prefer to be slaves. Indentured servants are slaves by their own choice. In America, they were under contract to work for the Master until their debt was paid. That debt might have been ocean passage to the New World.