On Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 07:09:32 (-0700) michael perelman writes: >... > Even if these children defied all of our understanding of child >psychology and chose to have themselves beaten to earn more money for >their parents, would such treatment represent an expression of slavery? > For example, some people in impoverished nations, such as China and >Japan and Russia, were so destitute that they sold themselves into >slavery (see Patterson 1982, p. 130). Voluntary slavery is said to >exist today in some of the poorest parts of the world. Would any >rational person see slavery as an indicator of freedom or just as an >absence of choice?
My thoughts/questions parallel yours with regard to our "volunteer" military, the labeling of it as such is really ignoring the obscene. Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
