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Which do you consider more evil...killling a man, or letting him live as your slave. It could be said that both are a way of "taking a man's life". One ends it, but the other takes away the freedom that gives life value. Is an empty life really even a life?
So is it worse to kill an animal and eat it? Or let a bee live just to steal the one thing they all devote their lives to create?
Murder or slavery?
Meat or honey?
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Death row option.
Be killed or live as the victims family slave. Chip them like a dog.
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Killing a man everyday would be more evil.
Similar to the black mirror episode White Bear.
You would enjoy that Fred
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Lots of variable. For instance: Would it have been evil to kill Hitler early in his reign?
But I'm with Lucie; this seems to be a vailed comparison of the death penalty to life in prison.
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Did not Jimmy Ciff quip "I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave?"
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An enslaved man could kill his master while a dead man can't.
Song of Solomon 2:15
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
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(11-13-2015, 06:38 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: An enslaved man could kill his master while a dead man can't.
If you had a slave though you would never allow them close enough. I wonder if this would lessen crime.... If one of the options was riff a slave to the victim for however long the punishment was ...
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It is reported that Mohammed Emwazi was killed today: Was that evil?
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I suppose I'd enslave a man, instead of kill them.
I could always brainwash or condition them.
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The worst thing you can do to a human is take their freedom. None of us know what is beyond our death, but in this world being enchained is the worse possible fate.
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A man chooses a slave obeys.
When you become a slave it takes away the part of us that makes us human. Our choices mean nothing and there is no such thing as The Pursuit of Happiness or a better tomorrow just more of the same. Just soulless husks of what they used to be and a means to an end.
Love these questions Fred!
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I wonder if this would be a better rehabilitation than sitting in prison?
Losing your humanity would certainly make you think twice before committing a crime.
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I enslaved a gopher one time.
Jammed him in the sleeve of a wet-suit and made him a sex toy.
Used a stick to get him in there.