Slavery: the different levels.
Slavery in our societies is formally abolished. But when you look at the world carefully, you will find slavery everywhere. Take the obvious exemple: farm animals. The system around institutionalized enslavement of animals is so widespread, so deep, that most of us humans don't even think about it as slavery. It is sort of normal for most of us that animals are born and then slaughtered for their meat. I would like to stress here that they are slaughtered. Human slaves weren't usually killed, they were just exploited for their work, and while one could argue that it is even worse than being raised for meat, it clearly shows that a double standard is applied to non-human animals. And I respect that. Humans first. What is a human, though? Insofar as we are a collection of cells, we are a walking zoo of oppressed and slaughtered organs. Take the skin. An average skin cell lives for about 3 months. When they are born, they are relatively close to the veins bringing nutr...