pcosmar
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Yeah, keep equating voluntary welfare checks with coercive physical bondage, that's the ticket!
It's funny how attaching the word "voluntary" to an injustice suddenly makes it right. Mental slavery is not equal to physical slavery. It is worse.
I'm fairly certain that physical slavery is a serious burden on one's mental state.
I'm fairly certain that physical slavery is a serious burden on one's mental state. The comparison isn't mental slavery versus physical slavery. It's dependence versus mental and physical enslavement. Escaping dependence doesn't carry with it negative consequences. Escaping slavery put the slave at risk of capture, re-enslavement, raping, torture, etc.
Comparing the two conditions isn't a serious or worthwhile exercise.
[SIZE=-1][15][/SIZE] America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely political sense that is meant. Even if we grant that the American has freed himself from a political tyrant, he is still the slave of an economical and moral tyrant. Now that the republic — the res-publica — has been settled, it is time to look after the res-privata, — the private state, — to see, as the Roman senate charged its consuls, "ne quidres-[SIZE=-1]PRIVATA [/SIZE]detrimenti caperet," that the private state receive no detriment.[SIZE=-1](15)
[/SIZE][SIZE=-1][16][/SIZE] Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice? What is it to be born free and not to live free? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom? Is it a freedom to be slaves, or a freedom to be free, of which we boast?
This man said the blacks he saw in those houses abort their children and put their kids in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton....That's racist...
There is a reason why your challenge fails on it's face. Before you can have someone voluntarily be your slave, you would need to involuntarily enslave their mind. Otherwise, you know that any mentally free person is going to reject your challenge. This doesn't prove your point. It proves mine. The fact that no one is willing to physically put themselves into slavery shows that physical chains have no power over mentally free people.
Yeah, keep equating voluntary welfare checks with coercive physical bondage, that's the ticket!
No, somebody claims slavery is preferable to something else today, so if he means it, he must be willing to take it over whatever it is he's comparing it to. The fact he ISN'T willing to do it, means he doesn't mean what he says. For unless he chooses it, what meaning is the word "better" or "preferable".
I don't need to label whoever claims slavery is better than welfare or whatever, it is what it is, I am simply putting his claim to the test.
So no, I need not enslave anybody's mind, the fact anybody would be stupid enough to claim slavery is better than modern welfare, is his problem, not mine.
Do you agree or not that blacks are better off as slaves? Is that a fair question to ask a simple yes/no answer to?
You make no sense. Cliven Bundy is not living in poverty while trapped in the system of state welfare. Here is your argument being applied to you.
If you think welfare is not slavery they go be on welfare otherwise you don't mean it when you say welfare is not slavery.
Do you agree or not that blacks are better off as slaves? Is that a fair question to ask a simple yes/no answer to?
There is no one alive today that can tell us what is like to live in physical chains expect perhaps political prisoners and criminals. I think physical slavery is a horrible and crude way of enslavement. I am just not naive enough to believe it is the only way to enslave, and I am certainly not willing to ignore other forms of slavery because they are not physically painful or have some material reward attached.
No,, I do not think slavery is a "good thing",,but to have opportunity to be free and to chose slavery or be tricked into it,, is worse.
I don't need welfare to be slavery for me to not want it. BUT, I can say with a straight face that given a choice, I prefer welfare over slavery. I am willing to bet everybody who has experienced either would agree with me, but those who do not, I'd be happy to hear their perspective, and see if they can demonstrate it by actually choosing it.
I can ask ANY slave in shackles if they prefer to be NOT in shackles, but try asking anybody on welfare if they prefer to be in shackles. (assuming a person isn't in prison)
Anybody who disagrees with me is free to prove it to me.
"He uses the words better and preferable from his own perspective."
And in my perspective, being raped is preferable to eating a sandwich, the fact a person is imaginative enough to have a perspective does not mean it's free from criticism or correction, or testing of whether a person is serious about .
Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion
On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States.
Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America. Are we being targeted? Isn't that genocide?
this here is the OBJECTIVE DIFFERENCE between pre-1860 slavery and today, YOU CAN ACTUALLY teach people to stop being dependent, and they may actually be able to get out if they tried hard enough, this is NOTHING LIKE the legal and physical impossibilities pre-1860 (people today, like you said, are TRICKED, not FORCED). A person today doesn't need a weapon to break free from the state's welfare cage, he only needs to not be handicapped, willing to put in time, and demand equality as his fellow citizens have it (short of being in prison).
If you were a pre-1860 slave, good luck running away, good luck surviving on your own, where the government does not even try to protect your right to live.
Am I not giving you enough reasons to say it's day and night difference? I am NOT saying welfare is a good thing either, but to say it's as enslaving as slavery pre-1860 is just ignorant and insulting.
But that is a lie. It is not your perspective. You only think he wasn't serious about what he said because at this point, it is pretty obvious you don't know what he said, or you simply ignore the context and pull out the piece you don't like.
Regardless, you still fail to realize that someone who is a mental slave is not going to recognize their own captivity. So what you would be asking them would come across as you are putting it. Would you rather be a slave or on welfare is not the correct question.
The correct question is did slaves in early America live better lives than those in modern day poverty stuck on government welfare? I think that is a fair question. Here are some initial arguments.
Slaves in early America saw increasingly better standards of living and life expectancy and birthrates than their counterparts around the world. Today, we have this http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html
Is this a side effect of poverty and welfare?
Sounds quite a bit worse than physical chains to me.
We could make some other comparisons, such as what happens to the men and the family unit and compare those as well. But chew on that for a minute.
No one is suggesting that at all, you are misunderstanding and putting that slant on it. what is being said is that not much has improved for many and it's possible it has gotten worse.