• DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    10 个月前

    “Slavery is both expedient and right” - Aristotle

    Probably a bad idea to quote Aristotle as a moral authority on anything but the rules of rhetoric.

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      Clearly he was wrong sometimes.

      Was he wrong about the magnitude of crimes committed for the sake of excess being greater than crimes committed for survival? Who steals more - the capitalist class, or the Jean ValJeans of the world?