Gay Marriage

[Count Duckula]

3.  The end of slavery was made practical, in an economic rather than moral sense, by the advent of the machine age.  Given the outlook of many early industrialists, the habit of treating the labor as "lesser beings than themselves" made for a significant class divide that Marxian thought harnessed in the name of class warfare, which was not invented by Marx.

Eh. The technology became practical, therefore useful. Slavery still exists in America in a way. Migrant workers and illegal aliens and crops too delicate to be picked by machines. (Read Reefer Madness about the strawberries.) Migrant workers and illegal aliens and modernized slaughterhouses. (Read Fast Food Nation and Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them and start hating ConAgra and pig farms.) And the American politicians who want to seal off the borders. (But only between US and Mexico--apparently Canadians are too valuable for their beer, hockey, and free health care. Where's a DeeBye Photoshopped Photograph™ when I need one?)

I have a problem with anyone who treats anyone else as property or a cheap resource. And, like LoG and his incest argument, I have no axioms or anecdotes to back it up properly. (ObiWan, the way you make an argument is to state your opinion then find facts to back up your opinion. "Just plain wrong" does neither, and Pete, Lemming, and Occhi called me on it. :))