Barnfish wrote:
diforumreject wrote:
Barnfish wrote:
Having certain limitations on what you can do does not mean slavery. Read the definition you posted again and try and understand it in comparison to the freedoms you do enjoy.
so completely ignore any and all restrictions on our freedom, but only consider the definition in regards to the few "freedoms" we do enjoy.
The current system meets the definition, period.
I don't think you understand the concept of freedom at all, you seem to think if you are given any petty choices in your life then you are free, you have ignored or sidestepped plenty of major examples given in this thread about how little freedom we actually have, yet get positively giddy about the few benefits we have.
It is you who does not understand freedom or slavery. You equate limitations on what people can do as a lack of freedom and cause of slavery, ignoring all the freedoms we do have. We have significant freedoms many in the world do not have
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/42/contents
plus all the major freedoms I listed in the OP and those shown in the video, The Story of Your Enslavement. That completely ignores major freedoms or tries to make out they are restrictions.
Being free to associate with whom I want, marry who I want, work at what I want, live where I want are "petty". What a load of crap you spout!
so you can work at whatever you want and live wherever you want? You seem to have significantly more freedom than the rest of us. Your assumption that because we have some "freedoms", we cannot be subject to slavery is childish and stupid. I'm sure back in the day on the plantation some of the slaves also had some freedoms, some choices, everyone always does to some degree. Slaves have some freedoms and free men have some restrictions. having some choices does not equal freedom. Arguing that because we have significantly more freedoms than some in the world, we are not slaves, is a bit like cotton plantation slaves arguing that they are free because their owner lets them have Sundays off.
We are forced to participate in a certain system, you cannot opt out, there is no choice to opt out at all, but you are given a few choices on how you can operate within that system, which gives stupid people like you the illusion they are free. If you ever try to opt out force will be used against you, that makes us enslaved.
