[OWK]

voluntary slavery

Voluntary slavery is an oxymoron.

Slavery is by definition involuntary.

[Roscoe]

Indentured servitude was initially entered into voluntarily. Indentured servitude is a form of slavery prohibited by the 13th Amendment of our Constitition.

Your lame attempt at rebuttal failed.

[Roscoe]

A poor Thai girl sells herself to a pimp to settle her family's debts. He brings her to this country to work off the money as a captive in a brothel. The kind of thing that is in the news all the time.

Would you hold that the pimp is acting within his rights? Should she be required to remain captive till the debt is settled? If she runs away, how much force should the pimp be able to use recapturing her?

[The Old Hoosier]

Well, I sign the contract voluntarily. We can call it indentured servitude instead. I think that the exact term is unimportant. I'm not going to accuse you of bringing back some kind of hereditary slaveowning.