Re: [Pen-l] Law and Order: AEA

[Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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