Meta: Abolitionists and Slaves
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whatwekeepSo, I have a bit of a meta question....
We've seen people like Jeff, Dylan and even the Catholic Church, argue that, given the state of things in the USNA, keeping slaves and treating them well is the right/humane thing to do.
Then there's the argument that keeping slaves at all is wrong, and that it's better to either pay the fines and remove yourself from society (Cate Blanchett is a good example) or to deliberately live poor so that you don't have to own slaves (although we haven't gone into this much yet, David Hewlett's mother and his sister Kate live like this).
I'm kind of curious as to what people here think: which way makes more sense in the context of the AKB verse and which way is more ethical in that same context?
PS: There may be other examples of both sides, I'm kind of behind on the more recent additions to the 'verse.
We've seen people like Jeff, Dylan and even the Catholic Church, argue that, given the state of things in the USNA, keeping slaves and treating them well is the right/humane thing to do.
Then there's the argument that keeping slaves at all is wrong, and that it's better to either pay the fines and remove yourself from society (Cate Blanchett is a good example) or to deliberately live poor so that you don't have to own slaves (although we haven't gone into this much yet, David Hewlett's mother and his sister Kate live like this).
I'm kind of curious as to what people here think: which way makes more sense in the context of the AKB verse and which way is more ethical in that same context?
PS: There may be other examples of both sides, I'm kind of behind on the more recent additions to the 'verse.
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Date: 2008-10-17 05:23 pm (UTC)yeah it´s good he´s doing something,even if he´s doing that inside of the social structures he wants to overcome... even if he might be seen as hypocritical i think if there´s no other way of rescuing someone then buying him maybe it´s right.
i´m not sure if the people who would really start a riot are lost in the stories,because even if there were bourgeois wanting to change society it were always working class people who really did it... however i love the sweetness of this stories because in no other setting this would be possible reminds me a little bit of "the slave breakers" by masculategiraffe...