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I don't see how there would be slavery. The only people living on a seastead would be those who wanted to. I don't know how they would get slaves to come with them.

And yeah, if you don't like laissez-faire, you don't have to join a seastead that practices it. That's the whole point -- choosing your system of government.




I don't see how there would be slavery. The only people living on a seastead would be those who wanted to. I don't know how they would get slaves to come with them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Trafficking


(My kibo alert has failed me, and it's far too late to comment here, but I will anyway)

Lots of situations can be interpreted as slavery, and a lot of the creative interpretations are likely to revolve around children.

The quoted comment shorn of conversational context wasn't all that illuminating, so I expanded on it here: http://syncretin.livejournal.com/73427.html




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