Originally posted by @fmfThat would depend on way more information than given.
Is it also "totally justifiable" for people to be scouting settled land for weaknesses and preparing for a raid and killing or enslaving members of the rival tribe if economic circumstances make the raiding tribe decide it necessary?
Originally posted by @fmfNot in every scenario by any stretch.
Would it be morally sound ~ according to your moral mindmap ~ for a slave to kill his or her "owner" in order to end the enslavement? In any era.
Originally posted by @fmfIf I wire you 20 pounds, will you delete your new avatar pic? I blanch every time I see it. Not a jab at your appearance - your main pic is quite good.
You are dodging this question: Is the second post on this page - typed by you - your moral justification for slavery ~ by way of the scenario you described?
Originally posted by @philokaliaIf you want to look at slavery and talk about it as having been virtuous, or misanthropic, or economically beneficial etc. that's fine. Go for it.
I am not sure if you guys are cut out for serious meta-ethical conversations about maximizing the good in a situation with limited capabilities. You should just watch sports or AJ+ viral videos and cry at the end of sad movies the next time you get the urge to try something deeper. It's just not for you.
You don't believe in "rights" and "freedoms" of your fellow humans anyway and you refuse to recognize or assume that your fellow citizens are valuable and wanted. So it's of a piece for you, it would seem.
I think legal slavery was, morally speaking ~ a dark period in human history and I welcome the moral enlightenment that brought it to an end,consigning it - as it has been - to the reviled, illegal margins of humanity's ghastly margins, exactly where it belongs.
I'd probably have condoned slavery in the past too. There are people who condone it even today as it arguably makes commercial sense and turns poverty into a economic opportunity.