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From: ncg@ukc.UUCP (N.C.Gale)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Conscription/Slavery
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 09:19:55 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 18 09:19:55 1985
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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP ( Jeff Sonntag)...

>     How is slavery defined?  Haven't got a Webster's handy, but how about:
>"Use (or threat of use) of force to cause an individual to act in a manner
>contrary to their free will for an extended period of time." ...


  I just caught a glimpse of this howler before I erased the subject from 
my news, and I shan't be reading/answering any more of it.

  Doesn't the above definition include many things that it shouldn't,
such as Prison, or even compulsory Education, or a lot of quite
sensible laws: Drugs, Drinking&driving, Vandalism, etc

Depends upon whether you include the threat of punishment in
  'threat of use of force', I suppose