Paulomycin
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You can buy them, apparently because God tells you that you can.
You can, but there's a 7 year limit if they convert (and there is an incentive to convert).
You can, but you can't mistreat them, because that "one law" thing you're frantically ignoring.
You can beat them for life, apparently because God tells you that you can.
But not really, because of that, "eye for eye; tooth for tooth," thing.
You can buy slaves from the nations around you, apparently because God tells you that you can.
Better to buy a woman who's about to sacrifice her firstborn to Molech.
Better to buy a man out of the zero protections that foreign slavery provides, compared to Mosaic slavery.
If I'm told I can by slaves from the nations around me, then that's a global slave trade.
But not global slave policy. Give me one tradition in the ANE that allows freedom from slavery if you convert to the national religion. lol. Forget it, you can't.
Great, so now you have conceded my point entirely. God does tell His readers that you can own people as property, and beat humans, for life.
That, or you're deliberately misrepresenting my posts and straight-up goading me into calling you a liar.
If they do not convert, or are not an Israelite, they could be hosed.
It's a cap on paganism. Great incentive.
Imagine if they bothered to apply that in the antebellum South. Slavery would be little more than working off a debt. Like washing dishes in a restaurant for a really-really big meal.
You have yet to refute that God sanctions the owning of humans as property for life, and the beating for life.
Because it puts the human in power. It gives them options. I had assumed you weren't that dense.
Nothing you have provided has told me I am wrong. Hence, I guess I'll take your continuous dancing, all around this basic question, as a complete concession. Thanx
Okay, if you insist on being dishonest.
You again tried to wiggle out of this basic {yes or no} question. But it's okay.
Because I'm not obligated to answer a false dilemma fallacy. Sorry.
You already answered sufficiently. )Paraphrased) -- "God tells slave owners how they may handle their slaves if they do not convert, or are not Israelites." Thanks again.
Problem???
If you whip your slave from the back 312 times,
In Roman times, the limit was considered closer to 35, but don't let facts get in the way of your agenda, or anything.
and he dies on day 4, from infection, you are golden
^ You never explained how, as a slave-master, one could realistically plan for a slave to die from infection on the exact day; exactly as planned. Because you can't.
Because it's a deterrent. Not a license.
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