Comments on: Images of Modern-Day Slavery by Lisa Kristine

By: t3mp

t3mp — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:53:00 +0000

When rumored D800 was delayed because of Thailand floods, the situation become quite ridiculous – one half of the earth had to deal with having nothing above their heads, second one had to deal with having nothing to shoot them with. Is there a way how to recognize what is in the best interests of others and weather or not to interfere in case they might be trapped in a vicious circle? Is there something common between “individuals”, some kind of “esperanto”? If yes, is it definable?

By: RUSS

RUSS — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:37:00 +0000

lol no no John, that is what i meant. You reading into it, is what you did sir. Capital letters giving you a meaning is neat and all. But, you stay up there on your horse bud. :-) And I am sure people around the world will be much happier you won’t be posting things on the internet that is badly thought out cultural arguments..

:-) keep smilin

By: John Godwin

John Godwin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 10:03:00 +0000

Please, spare me. That is absolutely NOT what you said in your opening post. Your original intent was to get people to spare a thought for the poor slave-masters who know no better. That we must give a pass to people who enforce misery, cruelty and death-for a pittance-because of some flimsy “belief”. You even rammed the point home using uppercase

You challenged a morally superior audience to consider the possibility that it might be they who are in the wrong, and not the backwards, prehistoric culture that supports such a despicable, filthy practice.

What will I do to “fix the slavery problem”?

I’ll start by not positing badly thought-out cultural arguments, surreptitiously condoning the enslavement of children on no more the basis than, “It’s what they do, innit?”.

I’ll start there.

By: RUSS

RUSS — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:54:00 +0000

:-) I agree Luis.

By: RUSS

RUSS — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:52:00 +0000

Well maybe you misread it…Hmm,
Maybe you didn’t understand what I meant when i wrote “What WE see as horrible” ( slavery, Nazi’s, racists, bigots and homophobes.But also would include rapists, child molesters and all other things, acts, and people we find horrible in our culture. and by “WE” I mean ME and others who were brought up as we were.)

Is their way wrong?
To us, ya of course it is. We were brought up differently

Is our way wrong?
no. Our way is the way it should be. Freedom is a good thing..

Is it our business?
Tough call, seeings most of us live in countries that should fix their own problems before trying to fix other country’s problems. But ya I’d say it should be something we make our business.

One thing I want to ask you John is, What will you do to fix the slavery problem?

By: Chris Popely

Chris Popely — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:56:00 +0000

An excellent point, flawlessly made. Well done.

By: John Godwin

John Godwin — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:37:00 +0000

I’m not calling you a name, I’m accurately describing you based on your post.

If you really think, for even a second, that slavery is acceptable purely because another culture condones it, then you automatically have to make the same allowances for Nazi’s, racists, bigots and homophobes. Because, shit, gassing Jews and burning black people might not be my thing, but hey, they did it in Germany and the deep south, so who are we to judge?! Do you see how disgusting that sounds? That’s how you sound. Really, calling you a fucking imbecile is the best thing to do, because either you’re too stupid to realise the gravity and depth of your statement, or you’re inherently evil and sociopathic.

The way you placed your cringe-worthy attempts at thought-provoking statements in UPPERCASE, as if the moral case for human slavery was somehow open to debate, rather than open rejection and opposition just completely sickened me. As if, once reading it, we were suposed to think :Oh hey, RUSS might be right, perhaps we SHOULD stop moaning about human slavery, because that’s just how they do things in that barbaric and miserable culture!” If you can advance that position and not realise how heinous it is, then there’s something fundamentally wrong with you. I mean to the point where you’d actually have to be devoid of the critical faculties for compassion.

So yeah, you’re an imbecile, and I’m kind of disgusted with myself for even entertaining you.

By: RUSS

RUSS — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:22:00 +0000

Danylö Böbyk WELL SAID. :-)

By: RUSS

RUSS — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:21:00 +0000

Me making a statement and asking questions.
And that’s the best you could reply with, Johnny boy?
Come on give your opinion , not school grade name calling.
Anyone can call someone names. We know, because, you just showed us that example.
Re-read the post and give your input. That’s what’s needed most johnny.

By: RUSS

RUSS — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:11:00 +0000

Because they have a different culture and belief system, it is not my place to judge them based on my own beliefs.