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To: Zon
You can claim it till the moon turns to cheese but there still will be never be such a thing as voluntary slavery.

Exactly. Even if intially entered into voluntarily, slavery would be deemed involuntary servitude under our Constitution.

If a desperate crack addict sold himself or herself into slavery for another fix, no American court would enforce the contract or allow its enforcement. Under Libertarianism, no 13th Amendment limitations on contractual agreements would be permissible.

Such slaves could be sold at auction like livestock and whipped into bloody pulps for attempting to escape, all in the name of contract.

What a loathsome philosophy.

1,219 posted on 01/22/2002 10:17:17 AM PST by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe
"What a loathsome philosophy."

Don't be so harsh on yourself; you were programmed by your masters to despise yourself.

I'm sure if you show sufficient talent at savaging strawmen, they'll give you a shot at some real flesh-and-blood victims.

Just hold your mouth right! ;^)

1,221 posted on 01/22/2002 10:25:45 AM PST by headsonpikes
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To: Roscoe

Even if intially entered into voluntarily, slavery would be deemed involuntary servitude under our Constitution.

Slavery is not voluntary thus it cannot be entered into voluntarily. You can claim that slavery is voluntary till you're blue in the face and it sill will never change the fact that slavery is the initiation of force and thereby illegal under a Libertarian platform.

1,245 posted on 01/22/2002 6:22:09 PM PST by Zon
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