RE: If it wasn't done to you, or done by you then you are OWED nothing, and you don't OWE anyone...
I like to think slavery just has evolved into something else. A lot of the laws which we cannot refuse to follow really are much like slavery. We just have much larger cages. Yet you still must pay taxes which are likely not flat. You still must give your earnings (representation of your time) towards causes you may not support or have any control over.
You and I may resist such things and they will try to fine us, if we refuse that they will attempt to jail us, if we refuse that they will attempt to kill us.
If they manage to jail us then the good ol' 13th amendment kicks in(in the U.S.).
Which does allow slavery and involuntary servitude in punishment for a crime. It is specifically mentioned there in.
You and I have debated prison slavery before and not agreed completely. In fact, it may be the only area that you and I have debated that we disagreed. That's okay. :)
Yet the question is though we are not shackled and forced to do a specific labor each day are we in some ways still enslaved? Is that getting worse?
yup....Ive been arguing that exact point since high school.
No one has been able to refute it...all they can say is "it's much worse in other countries...if you don't like it move there"
Oddly enough a lot of people have been doing exactly that...strange how much it costs now days to renounce american citizen ship. Several tens of thousands of dollars last I heard.
What can we do?
dunno.
The bright point is that the advance of technology is constantly inventing NEW freedoms that last for a while before they are made illegal or taxed.
Pretty soon the government will realize that they can keep up...the it will be
anything not mandated is unlawful
ya think?