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: 2008-10-18 01:29 pm (UTC)The revolution is not around the corner. Sexualizing ownership of people is a brilliant way to get everybody who owns to want to keep the system the way it is. Talk about self-interest baby, that's it.
The owner who abhors ownership has to decide what has an actual effect beyond the stains on his own soul. Jeff's dilemma is so compelling because his own guilt is really just not the point, and he needs to learn that.