You can leave = you consent?

[Juan]

@MaxLiberty

Yes, your idea of freedom is that no person anywhere in the world is trying to restrict you. If one person in the world is trying to violate your rights then you are a slave.

That’s a silly strawman. By the way, it’s not ‘my’ idea of freedom, but the libertarian idea of freedom. Or maybe it’s petit-bourgeoisie freedom , as the marxists put it ?

[banned]

@Maxliberty

Or you have to find ways to resist. You are resigned to your slavery. You are not a free man who has been enslaved, you are a slave who would like someone to free them. A free man who is enslaved is always seeking a way out and believes there is one, a slave who seeks to be free is always at the will of others.

You sound like the randroids.

[Anonymous_Coward]

@Maxliberty

Can you be free if there is someone in the world who might rob you or harm you?

Free from coercion?

There seems to be a rash of people suffering from the Nirvana Fallacy Syndrome lately.

[Spideynw]

@Anonymous Coward

From the wikipedia;

As a social-economic system, slavery is a legal institution under which a person (called “a slave”) is compelled to work for another (sometimes called “the master” or “slave owner”), under rules typically referred to as slave codes.

You know, I’m not seeing too much difference between the two.

This is an excellent point.

So, if a slave does not try to run away, does that mean the the slave has “consented” to slavery?