Slavery?

[The Lawspeaker]

What are your ideas towards the institution of slavery and indentured servitude (long since passed into history) ?

I personally think that slavery is revolting and that no man should be the property of his fellow man but I do think that someone who is in serious debt to someone (to a private person of equal standing- not a bank) or who has committed a serious crime should be put to work in order to pay of his debt (to society). But an indentured servant should be treated as a human being, not as a slave and cannot be "sold". If the person who the servant is in debt with wants to cease the status then that servant should be released.

[Liffrea]

Slavery can be as much a state of mind as it can be physical shackles. Many people are no better than it, many are content to be it, but that’s the mark of man.

[Sol Invictus]

Fuck slavery. I think it takes a sort of mentally ill person to want to do that sort of thing. If you owe someone money who can't pay it, then find some other way of paying it off on a voluntary basis. If the person peaces out leaving himself indebted to you then that should say something about that person's honour.

[Daos]

I find that some (most?) people are so moronic and useless that the only way they can contribute to society in any way is by being put to forced labour (slavery).

But then again, we're all slaves (more or less) for the plutocrats, so who cares what we think?

[Grumpy Cat]

Fuck slavery. I think it takes a sort of mentally ill person to want to do that sort of thing. If you owe someone money who can't pay it, then find some other way of paying it off on a voluntary basis. If the person peaces out leaving himself indebted to you then that should say something about that person's honour.

Seconded. Slavery is a barbaric practice.

[poiuytrewq0987]

I love being a slave.

[anonymaus]

It's among the worst things humans have done to other humans--and most groups have done it to their own people first.

[Arrow Cross]

Ah can't see enuff guilt, crackaz! Getcho asses back here an' moan a bit mo' 'bout how yo ancistos were eevul mothafuckas 'n' shitz.

[blan]

its a horrible practice that most all cultures have been responsible for at one point in history.
it hurts many people and creates social and political problems and issues for hundreds and thousands of years to come.

[Psychonaut]

Slavery, of one sort of another, is integral to debt—you cannot have the latter without the former. Men who want will always be beholden to men who lend, and he who is beholden is a slave to the will of another. Emancipate yourself by living simply, within your means. Enslave yourself by buying the lie that you deserve to live like the wealthy.