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The question is: which transition from case 1 to case
9 made it no longer the Tale of a "Slave?"
Originally posted by Hadrian
Still a slave throughout because in #5 the Master is still requiring 50% of your wages which, as opposed to taxation, doesn't appear to be going, specifically to services for your benefit, but to his pocket ... and he appears to still have the right/capability to call you back to the "plantation," so I assume there is still bondage even if not constant. Am I right?
Originally posted by LordBucket
reply to post by SpectreDC
The question is: which transition from case 1 to case
9 made it no longer the Tale of a "Slave?"
Non sequitor.
Slavery is an internal state, not an external state. It is not what the "master" does that makes a slave a slave. It is how an individual internalizes their experience that makes them a slave or free.
For example:
Case 1:
A man lives in a society with no legal controls on his actions. There is no law preventing him from doing anything he pleases. He may lie and cheat and steal and murder if he wishes, and noone will stop him. Not one person has any desire to control his actions in any way, and not one person makes any attempt to do so. However...this man firmly believes that he absolutely must dress up in a suit and tie every morning and go in to an office and work a job he hates in order to provide for his family. His wife is rich and reminds him every day that he need not work, they could happily go anywhere they want and do anything they wish without a care in the world. But he rejects this because he belives that it is station in life to work.
That man is a slave.
Case 2:
A man is taken by force to a work camp, and is branded with hot irons. he is bound by chains and told that he must dig in the mines or he will be executed.
He says no, shuffles out the door, and is shot dead with the chains still on his ankles.
That man died free.
[edit on 15-4-2010 by LordBucket]
Originally posted by Hadrian
so i'm a weiner, eh? does that mean i'm wrong, right or fell right into your craftily laid trap? what's the ... right answer?
Originally posted by Hadrian
reply to post by SpectreDC
sweet! but is there a message? is there an inference? are we all slaves? and is this in relation to taxation, or more general?