Relating slavery to the current state of affairs is a huge stretch. I get your point, but the relationship isn't even close.
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Relating slavery to the current state of affairs is a huge stretch. I get your point, but the relationship isn't even close.
Not everything we see on tv about slavery is true. Most slaves lead pretty normal lives. They just happened to be owned by some other entity much like people today are owned by banks. Sure some of them were tortured but that was the exception rather than the rule.
You need to append "all the time" for that statement to be remotely true, because everything reported on tv in cases of escaped slaves is entirely true, and much worse not reported, just not in every case all the time. Minority exceptions do not disprove any general pattern.
Virtually EVERY kidnapped person impressed into military work will suffer abuse you can call nothing else but torture. What else is ALL involuntary basic military training, and I'm not talking about the forced addiction, or the mind control techniques every imperial power developed in the past several thousand years, that any warlord or drill sergeant could have easily studied?
Ever heard a victim of the sex-slave trade recount their experience? If they're not suffering from Stockholm syndrome, their horror of the experience and hatred of their captors is nearly universal. Same for domestic slaves that may never have been sexually used, although that is much more common.
I find your blase attitude towards the violence and abuse of one of the oldest of primate (even chimps do something similar) evils really repugnant. Most slaves lead pretty normal slave lives. If they could lead relatively ordinary lives like MOST of the rest of the world, being "owned" wouldn't represent a constant existential and physical threat, or at the VERY least, the complete loss of personal autonomy that rises to the level of the worst Skinnerian conditioning conceivable. That some succumb to Stockholm syndrome doesn't mean they've simply changed their minds, that's yet more torture by their captors.
Now, if you want to make the point that common modern wage slavery is particularly pernicious because nearly everyone will think at some deeper, non-verbal level, "Thing's aren't really that bad if the boss doesn't come into my house whenever he thinks my performance is unacceptable, and torture me, or rape me, or steal my kids, or...", I'd still argue you're wrong, but wouldn't lose most or all respect for your reasoning and character.
Hollywood =/= Reality. Tell me next that you believe X-men are real and that the news sites are...objective
many slaves were sold from Africa due to the fact that they had debts from their countries. they weren't all abducted. Actually we don't know exactly how it went since accounts are rare and no way to confirm them.
Abuse and suffering is always contextual. For example if everyone around you lives pretty good and you are not then the trauma will be massive. If everyone around you has lost a child then it is ok since it is nothing normal. Trauma comes from something abnormal in comparison to the rest of people. A wage slave will be devastated if most people around them had their own business.
context is everything. People in the future will compare our lifestyles and assume that we were abused as well based on your reasoning. You can only compare with effective parallelisms..and this is what I did in my text.