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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.worldLeasing inmates
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    3 days ago

    How much more ethical is confining people in a small room against their will for years or decades? - Let alone executing some of them?

    There are distinct differences between prison and slavery. With slavery you’re kidnapped with no justification and no trial, somebody literally owns you, and you have fewer rights than farm animals. Prison is a punishment for a crime. Miscasting anything involuntary as “slavery” to make an argument have more dramatic impact is what loses the plot - it misappropriates the experiences of millions of people who were shipped across the ocean and actually enslaved.