Re:What do slaveholders think?
by StavrosK on Saturday March 25, 2017 @09:59AM
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I agree with you, but there's also another level that I saw mentioned here, namely that, back then, nobody seemed to mind it. Today, at least some people do.
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Yeah, well it's also not true. Many people in Rome wrote against the barbarity of the games, or even slavery, the most famous being Seneca:
> I am glad to learn, through those who come from you, that you live on friendly terms with your slaves. This befits a sensible and well-educated man like yourself. "They are slaves," people declare. Nay, rather they are men. [1]
They are men. Nothing more to say.
[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Let...
I figure it's a simple case of what humanity considered to be wrong and right have changed. Our advancements in technology and society have changed what is required just to live; have given us room to re-evaluate the status quo.