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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5867795" data-attributes="member: 24302">It's morally corrupt because when machines were developed to do the work of many men there could be no further justification for owning another human being.  You like to think you are morally above it all but if you lived in a time where everything was done manually it's highly likely you would not only participate in that system but would think of it as just the way things are.  It took time for people in Europe to say we can no longer justify enslaving each other.  It was then that they turned to enslaving other races.  And that wasn't peculiar to Europeans.  Muslims had a long history of enslaving non-Muslims.  The Mongols and other who rolled across the steppes did the same.  You're trying to make it all about Christians.</blockquote>