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    8 months ago

    “Slavery is both expedient and right” - Aristotle

    Probably a bad idea to quote Aristotle as a moral authority on anything but the rules of rhetoric.

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      18 months ago

      Clearly he was wrong sometimes.

      Was he wrong about the magnitude of crimes committed for the sake of excess being greater than crimes committed for survival? Who steals more - the capitalist class, or the Jean ValJeans of the world?

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        28 months ago

        Said the guy arguing that some people are “born evil” and pretending they can’t follow the logical chain from that assumption.