Originally Posted by ItsTheSheppy
Which itself was translated, and re-translated, and copied, and transcribed, and translated again, over and over. Take any sentence and run it through google translate enough times, and hilarity is the inevitable product.
Anyway, if you ever need a perfect example of Poe's Law, all you need to do is read these posts of people defending bible-sponsored slavery as being 'not that bad'.
Not sure if christian, or trolling.
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Well...because it wasn't really.
You assume that slavery was always something that was undesirable and "bad" in culture.
Take the Romans for instance: Slavery was seen as desirable...especially if you were hooked up with a family like the Julii because that meant that once you were given your freedom you would be looked upon as part of the Julii family...a very wealthy family in Roman history. Slavery was seen as a way to earn your way through Roman society without having been born into the aristocracy.
Also, as a sidenote: The image of the Southern slave owner being an evil mean brute is inaccurate. Most slave owners taught their slaves how to read, housed them, fed them VERY well.
Now besides the obvious fact that slavery is fundamentally wrong...I'm not arguing that point because everyone deserves the freedom to choose their own path in life....what else are you arguing here?
In a related story....I was born and raised in Tennessee. My wife is from Watertown, New York...almost near Canada.
We were talking one night...and she told me that...in the North....they teach that the civil war was started over slavery and that Abraham Lincoln wanted the "slaves to be free."
I laughed so hard I thought I was going to pass the fuck out.
The war was fought over Southern independence, not over slavery. Lincoln said repeatedly the war was not being fought over slavery. In August 1862, over a year after the war started, Lincoln wrote an open letter to a prominent Republican abolitionist, Horace Greeley, in which he said he did not agree with those who would only “save” the Union if they could destroy slavery at the same time. Lincoln added that if he could “save” the Union without freeing a single slave, he would do so (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862, published in the New York Tribune).
Lincoln added that if he could “save” the Union without freeing a single slave, he would do so.
The Civil War was fought over the cotton trade. Namely: The South was getting rich off of their cotton sales to other countries....the North had a failing industrial complex....they wanted more taxes from the South....the South said get fucked....and the war began.
Don't get the shit twisted anymore....Lincoln gave two shits about slaves.
Nor does enslaving any conquered race, or having slave gladiator battles. Nor selling slaves as cattle. Nor using slaves as concubines, or hard, cheap labour or galley crews.
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