• sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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        8 months ago

        So you see no distinction between…

        “chain around your neck, abducted from your place of birth, sailed across the world stuffed into a deck 2 foot high, sold to the highest bidder, brought to a farm, whipped until you’re bloody, served gruel, tortured at will, killed if you escape, never being compensated for your labour, worked until you die or killed off when no longer economically useful”

        … and …

        “joining the forces for 9 months, fully paid, or become a conscientious objector and file books in a library for 9 months; in either case your full legal rights remain”

        ?

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          8 months ago

          I didn’t say I see no difference? Killing someone by slowly torturing them over years and just shooting them is different. They’re both still murder though. Forced labor is slavery, some slavery is worse than others- but all slavery is bad.

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          8 months ago

          Slavery requires a lack of compensation,

          No, that is a definition that was constructed as apologism for various different forms of forced labor

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              8 months ago

              A lot of reasonable people define forced labor as slavery:

              The condition of a slave; the state of entire subjection of one person to the will of another.

              A condition of subjection or submission characterized by lack of freedom of action or of will.

              Forced labour, or unfree labour, is sometimes used to describe an individual who is forced to work against their own will, under threat of violence or other punishment. This may also include institutions not commonly classified as slavery, such as serfdom, conscription and penal labour. As slavery has been legally outlawed in all countries, forced labour in the present day (frequently referred to as “modern slavery”) revolves around illegal control.