Re:Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right
by dgacmu on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:28AM
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Call it theft, call it extortion - whatever your preferred perjorative is. I'm simply arguing that it's not slavery - and that terming it so deemphasizes the real horror of actual slavery, current and past.
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Re:Controlling your own wealth as a basic human right
by elastic_church on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @01:51PM
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Your primary argument is that basic human rights can't be compared to other basic human rights because of the magnitude of certain ones you find more objectionable?
The slave trade was abolished, I don't think you really need to write a thesis on it. Everyone accepts that, and now would like to elevate attention to more nuanced inequalities.