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On-Topic: I realized today that if I hadn't read The Origin of Species, or known the theory of evolution, I may have actually considered having a slave. That's assuming my peers would have convinced me that whites were created to dominate all other races.

I see all of you guys saying you wouldn't own slaves, but honestly I believe that if it were legal then everyone of you would (if you could afford it of course).

I wouldn't have a slave. Every person should be able to make their own decisions for themself. Having another living, breathing, thinking person as property is an alien concept to me. I would try and fight to make it illegal.

I'd never have a slave. Unless it was a bet or something and only temporary.

Only fat white european's have slaves because they can't remember how to lift there own [wagon], let alone do proper work.

 

 

 

Well, at least that was in the 1800's :roll:

 

 

 

So, I'd be against it. A person is a person and, after seeing District 9, can't stand the thought of treating "less civilised" people like that.

I would buy slaves, then free them until no one will give me slaves anymore \

 

 

 

Bwahahaha! Beat the system!

if slavery was never made illegal and I had the money and lived in the south, I'd sure as heck buy enough to help business and compete. Not because i'm an [wagon], but because I'm not so dumb that I don't realize that my value systems would be different in that hypothetical world.

 

 

 

I would buy slaves, then free them until no one will give me slaves anymore \

 

 

 

Bwahahaha! Beat the system!

 

If you account for inflation, a slave in the early 1800s would've cost about $40,000. No ones exactly "giving" you slaves.

if slavery was never made illegal and I had the money and lived in the south, I'd sure as heck buy enough to help business and compete. Not because i'm an [wagon], but because I'm not so dumb that I don't realize that my value systems would be different in that hypothetical world.

 

 

 

I would buy slaves, then free them until no one will give me slaves anymore \

 

 

 

Bwahahaha! Beat the system!

 

If you account for inflation, a slave in the early 1800s would've cost about $40,000. No ones exactly "giving" you slaves.

 

 

 

I think they'd cost far more. I mean, I can easily make 60k a year as a labourer. I could buy a fleet of slaves and have them pay themselves off in less than a year:D

if slavery was never made illegal and I had the money and lived in the south, I'd sure as heck buy enough to help business and compete. Not because i'm an [wagon], but because I'm not so dumb that I don't realize that my value systems would be different in that hypothetical world.

 

 

 

I would buy slaves, then free them until no one will give me slaves anymore \

 

 

 

Bwahahaha! Beat the system!

 

If you account for inflation, a slave in the early 1800s would've cost about $40,000. No ones exactly "giving" you slaves.

 

 

 

I think they'd cost far more. I mean, I can easily make 60k a year as a labourer. I could buy a fleet of slaves and have them pay themselves off in less than a year:D

 

 

 

I think that's the whole point of slavery.

The whole reason that we believe that slavery is wrong is because we have been taught all of our life that it was wrong and that it should never be done. If we had grown up with slavery being legal, we would believe that it is right, and if not right, then acceptable. We would know that there is not much you can do about it, like people who don't agree with smoking. You may not like it, but who are you to say what other's do with their property?

The whole reason that we believe that slavery is wrong is because we have been taught all of our life that it was wrong and that it should never be done. If we had grown up with slavery being legal, we would believe that it is right, and if not right, then acceptable. We would know that there is not much you can do about it, like people who don't agree with smoking. You may not like it, but who are you to say what other's do with their property?

 

 

 

If that's true, why did we(America) have a Civil War that nearly tore the country in half?

The whole reason that we believe that slavery is wrong is because we have been taught all of our life that it was wrong and that it should never be done. If we had grown up with slavery being legal, we would believe that it is right, and if not right, then acceptable. We would know that there is not much you can do about it, like people who don't agree with smoking. You may not like it, but who are you to say what other's do with their property?

 

 

 

If that's true, why did we(America) have a Civil War that nearly tore the country in half?

 

 

 

Because people aren't inherently bad/evil/stupid.

The whole reason that we believe that slavery is wrong is because we have been taught all of our life that it was wrong and that it should never be done. If we had grown up with slavery being legal, we would believe that it is right, and if not right, then acceptable. We would know that there is not much you can do about it, like people who don't agree with smoking. You may not like it, but who are you to say what other's do with their property?

 

 

 

If that's true, why did we(America) have a Civil War that nearly tore the country in half?

 

 

 

Because the north had no need for slavery. With the Industrial Revolution completely changing the way the Northerner's lived, they no longer needed slaves to work in the fields. As they moved away from owning slaves, the idea that they weren't necessary spread throughout the country. The south still needed slaves for labor, so they continued to keep slaves and pass on the idea to their children.

The whole reason that we believe that slavery is wrong is because we have been taught all of our life that it was wrong and that it should never be done. If we had grown up with slavery being legal, we would believe that it is right, and if not right, then acceptable. We would know that there is not much you can do about it, like people who don't agree with smoking. You may not like it, but who are you to say what other's do with their property?

 

 

 

If that's true, why did we(America) have a Civil War that nearly tore the country in half?

 

Whoa whoa whoa...white men weren't gonna kill each other for black men let me tell you that.

No. Never. The idea of 'owning' another human being is just not right.

 

 

 

And what grounds would you have to discriminate the new fictional people? This is like the 1800's revisited. So maybe they have a different skin color or something... Well we've sadly been there, done that. We should accept everyone as they are, and not discriminate people according to anything.

 

 

 

@The people who said yes: I will never understand you lol, you selfish self preserving people.

 

 

 

My 2 cents. :)

I would like to say that I would be against it at first, which I probably would, as would a lot of people

 

 

 

However, eventually it would just become normal practice and everyone would eventually support it

I would, but i would treat them decently, no whipping or starving them.

Trol's idea sounds decent.

 

Thats basically like having a servent or a butler.

I would, but i would treat them decently, no whipping or starving them.

 

you are truly a good person :thumbup:

I would like to say I would be against it, but I honestly don't know. Although I don't know what I would use a slave for...

I would, but i would treat them decently, no whipping or starving them.

 

you are truly a good person :thumbup:

 

 

 

You know, it was only the large plantations that were cruel to their slaves. Most small farms only had 1 or 2 slaves and while they weren't treated like royalty they were treated like human beings. It was the slaves who worked on plantations, particularly those plantations using the gang system, that were treated the cruelest.