The Principles

Slavery is wrong because of what happens in slavery. If you could avoid, the abuse, the cruelty, the inhumane ways of it, slavery wouldn’t be wrong. However, sometimes, people don’t see the principles of why something is wrong, not because of what happens in it, but what it is labeled as.

If you owned someone, but you let them do whatever they want, gave them food, shelter, and water for nothing, it would be slavery. While it would not be cruel or harsh, it still would be slavery, which by gentle society is a horrible sin. For owning anything or anyone, is slavery. Regardless of what happens in that slavery.

Nevertheless, people would label that wrong because it is slavery, not because what happens to the person, but for it being slavery. On the other hand, if you had someone pressured, tired, paid barely nothing, and had a massive debt to someone, it would be counted as a legal job, and thank heavens not slavery.

It’s not that this post is advocating slavery or anything of the sort, it’s just that we should know why something is wrong. Furthermore, we can trick ourselves, in saying something is not as bad because we call it different names. Although it may not be by the exact wording, it’s still the same.

The irony is that someone could own someone for three years to pay debt and be treated well, and we would nearly break a blood vessel. However, if you had someone working a contract to pay off a debt, horrible conditions, earning hardly anything, and we wouldn't blink an eye.

We can get so much caught into ideals of labeling, that when something is actually fine or wrong we don’t see it that way because, we aren’t looking at what is happening, but the words we label it. It’s a bit like if you would trust a label telling you the milk was safe to drink, but it was obviously festering and growing a family of a bacteria.

For what it’s worth, it’s not so much of what something is, but what happens in it. Too many times we can get caught in words, or names, that we don’t see the principles of why something is right or wrong. This can be very dangerous, as in the end it’s just useless traditions or hocus pocus.