xssve -> RE: Why A Slave? (2/21/2013 5:12:26 PM)
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Servus derives from The Great Chain of Being (GCOB), and is an abstraction of tribal values scaled to civilization, the basic unit of civilization being civis roughly translatable to "citizen", and it implies some obligation on the part of the citizen to the state regardless of tribal identity. GCOB is still very hierarchical, and it still exerts a powerful influence over modern political economy, from it we derive many of our ideas about hierarchical relationships of all types, including gender roles, albeit, there was an increasing awareness that the state also has obligations to the citizen (rights), that it's not a one way street, and this trend reaches it's current optimal ideal in the constitution of the United States, in which all the political power of the state is derived by consensus of it's citizens. The state possessing, among other things, the monopoly on violence, consensus is the only reliable way to assure that justice will eventually prevail, since we are all equally vulnerable, and among other things, the consensus is that slavery is unjust is the result. All of which has nothing explicitly to do with consensual, internal, or lifestyle slavery, whatever you want to call it, which is a ranges from various GCOB type constructs, to some interesting varieties of postmodern asceticism, as well as a lot of plain old kink, but is, overall, basically ad hoc. Legally I think the words "slave" and "slavery" themselves have been somewhat depreciated in legal language in favor of "human trafficking", and "human trafficking victim", and most of the emphasis here is placed on monetary gain from labor gained through force, without compensation - forced labor. i.e., you might say you could be a slave without being a victim of human trafficking, but you can't be a victim of human trafficking without being slave. Lol - how's that for semantic gymnastics?
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