Meta: Abolitionists and Slaves

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

So, 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.

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Re: I'm sorry this is so long!

[dairwendan.livejournal.com]

Jensen is a body slave, and I believe most of the other fics contain body slaves, but the AKB universe includes slaves of all types: slaves who do manual labor, slaves who do clerical work, slaves who do dangerous work such as cleaning up toxic waste, educated slaves, uneducated slaves, slaves of all types. Individuals of a certain economic class or tax bracket are obligated to use an amount of their income to support slaves, but companies and corporations also have slaves, so I assume they are under the same obligation.

I don't know that slave owning is limited to those obligated to own them.

Are there non-slave sweatshops? I think that is a question left open by the FAQ so that each writer can answer depending upon how he or she views the universe.