Re: Did you know you can buy land on the moon?

Hop David wrote:
> 
> Scott Lowther wrote:
> > Henry Spencer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>>...the two structures weren't at all similar.  Notably, in
> >>>>Europe, the nobility had ties to the peasants as well as vice-versa.
> >>>
> >>>What, like the Czar and the serfs? Yeah, that was WAAAAAAAAY different
> >>
> >>>from the master and slave relationship in the CSA...
> >>
> >>Actually, it was; read a bit more history, Scott.  Even slavery -- and
> >>yes, serfdom in Russia was pretty much slavery -- isn't as simple and
> >>standardized and unidirectional a thing as you seem to think.  Slavery in
> >>the CSA was fairly extreme, not a typical example.
> >
> >
> > Irrelevant to the discussion. You said: "It's not like slavery was
> > something only the US thought of.  They were just a bit slower to get
> > rid of it than most of the rest of the world." You just admitted that
>                   ^^^^
> 
> > "yes, serfdom in Russia was pretty much slavery." So tell me... which
> > came first, 1865 or 1917?
> 
> 1865. But since "most" instead of "all" was used this is a non-rebuttal.

Actually, it is. Henry considers conscription to be slavery, so it's
STILL going on in his view. And sicne the US has not had the draft
since, what, the early/mid 70's, while it's commonplace elsewhere...
again, the United States is leading the way in the world.

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