Posted on 01/15/2002 6:27:04 AM PST by tberry
Of course not.
Even if intially entered into voluntarily, slavery would be deemed involuntary servitude under our Constitution.
Slavery is not voluntary thus it cannot be entered into voluntarily. You can claim that slavery is voluntary till you're blue in the face and it sill will never change the fact that slavery is the initiation of force and thereby illegal under a Libertarian platform.
That's just how indentured servitude worked. Ignorance is a poor foundation for discussion.
Slavery is not voluntary thus it cannot be entered into voluntarily. [1245 Zon]
That's just how indentured servitude worked. Ignorance is a poor foundation for discussion.
Earth to Roscoe! ...you supplied the definition of servitude that clearly shows that servitude lacks liberty. Thus slavery is the initiation of force and illegal under a Libertarian platform. You're not ignorant you're a blatant dishonest parasite.
Main Entry: ser·vi·tude
Pronunciation: 's&r-v&-"tüd, -"tyüd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin servitudo slavery, from servus slave
Date: 15th century
1 : a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one's course of action or way of lifeMerriam-Webster Online, http://www.m-w.com
Even if intially entered into voluntarily, slavery would be deemed involuntary servitude under our Constitution.
If a desperate crack addict sold himself or herself into slavery for another fix, no American court would enforce the contract or allow its enforcement. Under Libertarianism, no 13th Amendment limitations on contractual agreements would be permissible.
Such slaves could be sold at auction like livestock and whipped into bloody pulps for attempting to escape, all in the name of contract.
Even if intially entered into voluntarily, slavery would be deemed involuntary servitude under our Constitution.
Earth to Roscoe! Slavery is not voluntary. Slavery is initiation of force. Slavery violates free association.
Silly me. I thought that was what you lived for. NOW I find out you're against such "dicipline".
It's never *ever* too late to ask your doc to up your meds comrade
Newspeak.
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