If you find yourself minimizing the atrocities of slavery is it time that you reexamine your life and your ideologies?

Any example of slavery.

@KaliKali:I see, that is a tough one to say because there were some examples of slavery that were far worse then others. In some cases of slavery, it might as well be classed as genocide, in others it can be as simplified as forced labour. I think it comes down to the morality of the buying and selling of human life, some see it as no different than buying and selling cattle, while others see it as a blight on this Earth. I suppose it is merely a matter of what side of the fence you stand on, and what party holds dominion over law. But no matter what, over exaggerating facts is just as damaging to all parties as minimalising them. Minimalising allows criminals to get away with what they have done and over exaggeration allows for the innocent to be demonized and punished along with the guilty.

Some people torture people before they rape and murder them, so people who rape and murder people without torturing them first aren't as bad.


Do you see how disgusting and stupid that sounds?

@KaliKali: I can see what I said completely went over your head. Also murder, rape and torture is a completely different subject. To use one subject as an example of another subject that is completely different is just wrong and shows an incredible amount of ignorance on your part. I think I understand what you were trying to portray, that a crime is a crime and to judge someone less because they committed a similar crime in a different way is wrong. But that too is a very limited view on the matter of all crimes, like would you give the death sentence to someone who is proven mentally ill and ended up murdering someone? Why not, he murdered someone and murder is murder despite the fact that he probably needs help instead of being treated like a criminal. Now going back to slavery, there are examples of people and societies in the 1800s that would use many different methods in order to free slaves in North America, one method use by die hard anti slavers within the ACS was to buy slaves, set them free and help them get to a freedman colony in Africa. Those men bought people making them slavers themselves, despite the fact that they set them free and helped them get to a place they believed they could live free. Does that make those men criminals? Should they be tried the same way as someone as someone who bought slaves, beat them everyday and forced them to work to near death, while they starved them and sold them off to mines for cheap when they were near dead? Events are much more complicated than he did this so he should be punished for it, we are so focused on the effect that we do not even bother to consider the cause. Like I said, over exaggerating something is just as dangerous as under exaggerating something. Just as having a limited vision on something is a dangerous thing as well. That is all I have to say about that.

Slavery is disgusting because it is slavery. Everything else is just added horrors.