Can slavery be justified?
97316
well they could give my grandpa some money for it! they gave money to jewish people but they dont for african americans. to justify i think they should have given them money too.
758294
no,slavery is.then again we are all responsible for our own actions and the way we treat people.so i do treay people w/ the same respect that i would like to be treated with. happy holidays.p.s. people were angry with our court system when it comes to the verdict.not the african american race.
125481
you need to define the parameters of Slavery.  Do you mean during the anti-bellum period? Do you mean just in the years between the Civil war 1861-1865? Do you mena just in America or around the World.  Slavery is as Old as civilzation.  \n\nIf you are asking for a reference during America's history of salvery and defining the terms from the orginal colonies up until the immaciapation proclamation including the entire Slave trade industry, then the numbers are phenomial.  \n\nAre you just asking How many Black American Slaves that resided in the South Died or are you asking about the entire slave trade from Africa through West Indies up to the southern colonies?\n\nRedefine your question, and you can educate yourself by doing Yahoo or Google or Ask Jeeves searchs about the American Slave trade.
12212
Slavery is a result of circumstances, and thus, if the circumstances arise, slavery can easily come back. We're humans, and we can never ever be sure of anything, and thus, anything can happen.
265185
If your area has a 14 day rule...that is the standard.  I can have you sign a contract saying you are my slave, but slavery is illegal, hence it wouldn't be a valid contract.  I would make one more attempt at asking the pet dealer for your money back....and then i'd sue him in small claims court.
435249
I resent you saying that I have the same mind set as my ancestors whom you claim owned slaves.  All white people did not own slaves, in fact, a lot of them were against it and fought for the freedom of the slaves.  I have always been on the slaves side when I have read or seen anything about slavery.  Just because I am white does not mean I think slavery is acceptable.  I think it was deplorable!  However, a lot of other people have been wronged in history too, mainly, the indians whom we stole this very land from.  Are you going to make repairations to the indians for the fact that YOUR ancestors stole THEIR land????!!!!!
805155
Without being too racial discriminating, the years of slavery?
202403
I hope you aren't saying that all whites are descendants of slave owners and all blacks are descendants of slaves.  \n\nI also hope you aren't suggesting that the way to remedy a wrong not committed against a person is to have someone who didn't commit the wrong give the person who wasn't wronged money or land.
1022074
The Bible is true and anyone who says it's fiction needs to shut up. And slavery sucks black people have been slaves since 1600 and still we are not treated like fair. Some white people treat us blacks great but most are racists, rednecks, or hillbilles. Now slavery isn't great at all. When blacks were slaves the white people depended on them because they did all the work well they did everything. Now why don't people get a maid or a waiter they aren't slaves and they can quit at anytime.
202096
Events must be taken in the context of history.  I do not believe it is valid to place today's standards, whether legal or moral, on a society or events that happened hundreds of years in the past. Concepts such as law are an evolving institution, changing over time to meet the needs of society in a certain place and circumstance. What was considered acceptable or proper two hundred years ago might be scourned on today. When Columbus landed in the New World, the attitudes he brought with him were of European origin, and whatever treatment the native peoples received at the hands of the explorers fit that time and place.  The Spanish invasion of Mexico, Central and South America was a similar situation.  There were horrific battles in which thousands of Maya, Incas or Aztecs were wiped out.  There was no such term for genocide at the time, and it was not even an issue.  By the same token, the Salem Witch Hunts were a part of that society's behavior, and acceptable at the time. Even slavery in America was acceptable at one time.  All these things have to be viewed in the light of the time and place they occurred.  To place today's standards on events that happened generations ago lacks legal, moral, and ethical standing in my opinion. Things were what they were at the time, so value judgments should be made relative to the times in which these things happened. We may not agree with them based on our modern-day upbringing, but that was then and this is now. For this reason it seems ludicrous to me to seek reparations today from one group of people by another group of people for the sufferings of still yet another group of people 150 years earlier, as in the case of slavery in America.  In my opinion there is no legal standing by anyone livng today on this issue, and any such claims should have been made at the time instead of waiting 150 years.  The same applies to the actions of the Spanish in the Americas in the 1500s.
558744
OF COURSE ! HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD OF WHITE SLAVERY WHERE WOMEN ARE KIDNAPPED AND FORCED INTO PROSTITUTION ? THAT DOES IN FACT GO ON IN THE WORLD .
376266
I don't think I can easily sum up the argument except to point out that Plato believed each individual owed a duty not just to himself but to the State (the community he lives in), and therefore a just life is more appropriate to this duty.\n\nBut again, the reasoning here is complicated and deserves some thought.
410475
Lincoln was not an abolitionist at first, but when Uncle Tom's Cabin was released, he believed it was wrong. He wasn't just upholding the law because then, it was not illegal to have slaves. The 13th Amendment wasn't made until after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
274217
Morally not necessarily\n\nRealistically yes
1176639
This question was posted awhile back and I said No but now after such bitter answers from the two above,I will say yes!\nAfrican-Americans do deserved reparations regardless of the incompetence of others who say present or future inheritors and generations don't deserved. Racism still exist today. Blacks may not be in invisible shackles or chains of bondage but we are still bounded by whites in economically,classicism,and religion etc... I just pray that we don't splurge the money on materialistic things and be laughed at for our wastefulness. You must realized that the money will go back to the ones who ancestors that have enslaved our past generations. As for myself, if I was to receive this money, I would buy a piece of land nd build a house so that my son will have a place for him if something was to happen to me.
592625
There is all kinds of slavery in the US and some is still legal.  While those are the illegal ones, they flourish because of the people being harmed are afraid or unwilling to go to the police.  But there are other forms that are legal, such as to certain religions, their jobs, lifestyles, etc.
483870
Slavery has existed in every society, race, culture and religion for eons. It only began to be condemned in the Christian West since the religious fanatic abolitionists came on the scene in the early 1800s. St. Paul writes in the New Testament for Christian slaves to obey their masters. Slavery exists in many parts of the world today especially in Islamic countries where generally their slaves are Negroes. A slave trade still exists between esat Africa and Arabia. Of Course Negroes were the first to enslave other Negroes and then by the Arabs centuries before the Portuguese arrive on the west coast of Africa.