A butler and maid, maybe. Not a slave. I mean I'd love for somebody to go around doing all the stuff I don't want to do, but out of choice - either because they really want to do it for me, or because I'm paying them. I couldn't deal with the guilt that comes with 'ownership' of another human being. Ownership implies forced tenure, rather than willing subservience. And force implies discipline and violence - suppression of resistance or rebellion. That's not what I'd want.
If it was legal to own a slave, would you?
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A butler and maid, maybe. Not a slave. I mean I'd love for somebody to go around doing all the stuff I don't want to do, but out of choice - either because they really want to do it for me, or because I'm paying them. I couldn't deal with the guilt that comes with 'ownership' of another human being. Ownership implies forced tenure, rather than willing subservience. And force implies discipline and violence - suppression of resistance or rebellion. That's not what I'd want.