[taxesareforever]

Slavery is always immoral;

In your opinion. And what is your opinion based on?

[From many - one.]

One of the benefits of not being a literalist is that one can understand the underlying truth of the Bible and not have to twist one's mind into a pretzel in order to defend parts for which understanding is context based.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"In your opinion. And what is your opinion based on?"

My individual rights as a human being. Nobody has the right to initiate force. I can't believe that on a conservative website, I have to defend the immorality of slavery, but so it is.

"Is abortion always immoral? Does it initiate force against another? Yes and yes, yet the government sanctions it and women and doctors use it. Go figure."

You are equating what the government allows, what is legal, with what is moral. According to this statist mentality, people can do anything they wish to each other if a majority says so. That is the essence of evil.

To quote John Locke:

“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his hands…are properly his. Whatsoever he removes out of the state nature has provided, and left it in, he has mixed his labor with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.” 8

8. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (New York: New American Library, 1963), Section 27, pp. 328-329.

You are really sinking deeper and deeper.