Slavery

[psychedelicist]

I was a slave once. The dominatrix (or however you spell that) was a pretty tough mistress. But you learn to like it

 

[The Seeker]

Not at all. Rights and benefits should be given to those of different qualities. A teacher, or a professor, has many rights the students don't, and shouldn't, have. He is, in the classroom, the authority and they are submitted to him.

Just because a particular social relationship exists, doesn't make it a good thing, nuh?

Likewise, a man and a woman, an elder and a youth, an uneducated man and a scholar, a layman and a priest, an army officer and a civilian, all have (or should have) different rights and occupy different places in the many hierarchies of society.

See above.

The modern notion of equality as a goal, and of hierarchy as an evil, is totally wrong. And to impose it, one has to take freedom away.

My, what a big assertion you have, care to support it?

Pray tell, how does one measure social merit? Is a single mother of five less worthwhile than a CEO of a fortune 500 company who only ever acts towards his own benefit?

 

[merryjig]

Likewise, a man and a woman, an elder and a youth, an uneducated man and a scholar, a layman and a priest, an army officer and a civilian, all have (or should have) different rights and occupy different places in the many hierarchies of society.

Oh dear some of these comparisons are slightly old fashioned for modern society. Man and woman for example nowadays should be entitle to total equality(as should have been the case all along but lets not dwell on the past). Priests should have no rights above anyone, after all they are just employed to talk about God. Perhaps officer and recruit would have been a better comparison. I kind of get your drift regarding education, but education doesn't necessarilly mean your bbetter at things, some very well educated people lack any common sense.

Perhaps you need to revise this.