• hark@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How is that different from current slaves? Attitude of the general population? Doesn’t seem to make much practical difference.

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      1 year ago

      You know how you don’t think a monkey is the same thing as a human? It’s like that, slaves were seen as smarter than a monkey but not people.

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        1 year ago

        Again, that makes little to no practical difference to the slave, they’re getting abused just the same.

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          Point to the time where prisoners in the U.S. were stacked up on boats and shipped across the Atlantic for months at a time.

          You don’t see prisoners treated like cargo here. Don’t get me wrong, they aren’t treated well, but there are certain factors here that I don’t think you’re considering.

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          It makes difference in the kind of treatment they can expect. You likely are less concerned with your pet’s opinions of things than your family fir example because they are people.