STO: Well meant and unintentional slavery

[Lavazza]

[quote='Tenet Nosce' pid='67315' dateline='1325623893']
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Consider what would happen if you:

1. Refuse to pay your taxes. Or mortgage.
2. Attempt to bypass your mobile carrier's signal with your smartphone.
3. Choose not to have children against your spouse's wishes.
4. Dis-enroll your children from school.
5. Send gold in the U.S. mail in payment to a debt collector.
6. Drive your vehicle without a license, and get pulled over.
7. Get caught sending or receiving copyrighted information over the Internet.
8. Accidentally harm another person's body with your vehicle.
9. Attempt to cross a border without identification.
10. Attempt to commit suicide.

In my somewhat ludicrous opinion, we are all slaves.
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I agree with your 10 examples- they are exactly such things that would elicit codified responses, as Ra would say. However so I do not agree that we are all slaves. I would say we are less than entirely free, as it were. Perhaps I am walking a fine line but I believe that one can be not-free and not a slave simultaneously, when living under a set of genuinely well intended laws, and when there exists a form a government with some degree of citizenry participation (elections, etc).