chain for the prisoners of antiquity

She was talking about old prisoners when we ruled the law of the jungle
Law of Hamo Rabi Law of the strongest

Men are rationalizing, not rational creatures.

Yes, trying to claim ownership of another man is wrong.  It hurts the soul, and creates more hardship in the world.

However, the fact is that men are afraid.  And to use your power to control other people is common response.  And so arises slavery.

Slavery = a weak man who doesn't own up to his own fear, and so enacts out a plan to show he is not weak by dominating others.

Ethical standards serve to regulate the actions of human beings, especially regarding their effects on other people. One of its fundamental characteristics is that they are universal, valid for any ethical subject at any time and place. Some rules can refer only to the agent and the action (smoking is forbidden), but the norms that also make explicit to the subjects receiving the effects of the action are much more complete and interesting.

Some attempts at universalization refer only to agents: that everyone uses the same rules of conduct. Universality is partial or incomplete, since the content of the norms distinguishes and discriminates diverse particular groups of people receiving the various actions (everyone is obliged to help those in need, it is forbidden to mistreat women).

Complete universality refers not only to the agents causing the regulated actions, but also to the recipients (beneficiaries or injured parties) of the effects of such actions. The norms are valid for everyone with respect to all, and this implies that the statements of the norms can only refer to each human being in the abstract, independently of their particular characteristics that would fit him in some subgroup of humanity (be more stable, like being black, or more circumstantial, like being sick.

Slavery does exist and probably always will.   Selfish people and narcissists will try to own you.  You may not have control over their behavior, however you have control o yourself.    It is all in the mind. As long as you do not let them take ownership of your mind, they do not own you.  They may think they do. You control how you will choose to react to such people.  Will you get stressed out and upset?   Or will you take charge of your own happiness?    You can try to change the selfish and narcissistic.  But only they can change themselves. And you are the captain of your own happiness.  Take control  of the helm today.   wonderful article @krnel.   Thanks.

There is something to be learned that we haven't learned yet.  I've been thinking about this topic for such a long time - why does history repeat itself?  https://steemit.com/life/@youhavewings/are-we-free

_**Know and understand right from wrong; live rightly; live morally; live in the wisdom of right-action.**_
I agree with this statement. I strive for it, but I don't live it perfectly. I don't know anyone who does. So we bump off each other as we learn to do it better. Acceptance and forgiveness go a long way. The greatest challenge I see is that each persons definition of this is subjective.

The belief that coercive collectivism can be just to the individual is the most harmful mass psychosis on the planet. I keep thinking it must be a diagnosable mental illness to believe in the authority of centralized institutions to initiate force/violence against those who have done no harm. Strange how the psychiatric manuals don't categorize belief in big government as a mental illness despite the fact that the bigger a government gets, the more violence and aggression it invariably commits. Oh wait, Stockholm Syndrome...right...

This is certainly a good bench-mark when thinking about violence and aggression, although it would be interesting to read more of your thoughts on what exactly constitutes those two things.

For instance, would you agree that government policies which deliberately target poor people, depriving them of access to basic necessities such as housing and healthcare, are an act of violence? Are companies which pollute natural spaces and taint drinking water also being violent to the local people who rely on these resources?

If so, this would appear to legitimise some instances of violent protest under the principle of non-aggression. As it happens, I don't necessarily disagree with that line of reasoning, coming as I do from a Leftist perspective. As I suspect you are coming from a Libertarian perspective, it would be interesting to know whether you also agree, and if not, whether this changes how useful your terms are in describing the socio-political sphere.

A situation that happens very often in my work comes to my mind. Where a person to be hiring a service believes that he owns us and feels the right to trample on us whenever he wants.
I think that is part of the lack of values that a large part of today's society lacks, in which respect for the other was lost.

One of the things I have seen during my life and which I personally rebel against is that wherever you are, whatever you do, either at school, at work or any human endeavor, you will always find a person who all of a sudden finds that he or she is the one in charge of things and starts making rules, you know x is not allowed, you can't wear x clothes around here, you can't say x words etc., and they succeed because a lot of people are willing to accept these people bossing them, I guess that is why governments came into being, people have to be told what to do, and if they are not told they just struggle along life without any aim. So I think the problem is inside each and every one of us, you have to rebel against authority from the moment you start seeing someone try to lord it over you, I think you have had enough after living with your parents, be your own person not what someone else wants you to be.
In fact I'm starting to see people telling you what to do here on Steemit which is supposed to be decentralized and a paragon of free speech.

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