Quote from: Hawker on March 22, 2014, 10:03:16 AM

Quote from: apsvinet on March 22, 2014, 09:50:18 AM

Quote from: Elwar on March 22, 2014, 07:40:32 AM

People supported slavery too.

And when they talked about it, they always talked about the benefits...not the use of force against humans.

>Compare taxes to slavery
>Think you're making a point
>Look like a giant douche

The difference between slavery and taxes is that not all people were directly affected by
slavery, it was discrimination towards a specific group of people.

There are other differences. Taxes finance common goods for all society. Taxes are paid by those who can afford them - slavery was imposed at random on whoever happened to be captured that day or happened to be born a slave. Taxes are a minor inconvenience that people bitch about but never do anything to change. Slavery destroyed lives and people risked death and torture to escape.

I could go on.

Rofl, of course there are other differences, I only stated the one that was relevant to the point he was trying to make.