My attitude is, get your own tea. Don't say, 'get me tea.'
Maybe that keeps me on a small plot of land, living lean. Shortage of labor. I can't have enough sons to expand. Well the simple life might have to be all right.
The individual is the ultimate reality, and that is also where you get personal accountability. A slave has no personal accountability.
In time, not taking personal responsibility becomes acceptable, just in another building. But it eventually comes over to your building. In time you lose your faith in it altogether. Then you are lost, and G-d is angry. He didn't want to talk to a cabbage. He wanted to talk to someone with personal accountability. Using slavery, you slithered away from personal accountability.
To have slaves, you have to talk to them. That eventually leaks back onto you.
I do see your point and it is true, but I am objecting.
Slavery has always been legal....
Slavery is icky.
My attitude is, get your own tea. Don't say, 'get me tea.'
Maybe that keeps me on a small plot of land, living lean. Shortage of labor. I can't have enough sons to expand. Well the simple life might have to be all right.
The individual is the ultimate reality, and that is also where you get personal accountability. A slave has no personal accountability.
In time, not taking personal responsibility becomes acceptable, just in another building. But it eventually comes over to your building. In time you lose your faith in it altogether. Then you are lost, and G-d is angry. He didn't want to talk to a cabbage. He wanted to talk to someone with personal accountability. Using slavery, you slithered away from personal accountability.
To have slaves, you have to talk to them. That eventually leaks back onto you.
I do see your point and it is true, but I am objecting.