Would you own a slave if slavery were legal?

Question

I am not trying to offend anyone with this question. I agree that slavery is morally wrong. However, I have to admit that been a noble woman in Rome having several maids waiting on me sounds very appealing. If I had grown up in that era, I would probably have accepted and even enjoyed owning slaves. I would love to have someone feed me graped, fix my hair and massage my tired feet. How about you?

Answer 1

Try being someones slave for a while then think about asking your question again.

Answer 2

People of those days looked at it very differently. Some people might have been relieved to have been bought as surviving on their own might have been harder than merely looking after someone in exchange for being fed ,clothed and housed. Some slaves loved their owners and were treated well by them. However surely the opposite occurred. Today many people are still slaves to mortgages , rent and an unhealthy lifestyle. However I think in those times I probably would have been a slave given my ancestry. Today we respect human rights and have no need to "own" somebody. However I think that most people are "owned" by the banks.

Answer 3

I think their is a big difference between slaves and servants or maids. Although some very mean people might treat them the same.
I would never have owned slaves. I couldn't have woken up to myself in the morning if i ever did. But paying a servant or maid and treating them good, I would definitely not be against. I mean if they are getting paid good wages for their work and are treated good and aren't required to do anything wrong or illegal, I'd say it would probably work for both of us!!

Answer 4

Nope!

I just finished my genealogy and discovered my family was way to poor to be guilty of owning slaves.

Besides you didn't need slaves to be waited on hand and foot. Many people kept paid servants. So hey who knows you could always win the lotto.

Answer 5

you will desire to have been a woman in historical Rome? a woman would desire to no longer own belongings, a woman would desire to no longer carry public workplace or vote, a woman did no longer 'own' her own infants (her husband did). yet she grew to become into 'fed' grapes by ability of a slave (except she grew to become right into a bad woman or a slave) and had her hair executed by ability of a slave. women human beings, or greater wisely, women, married by ability of the time they have been twelve years previous, each and every so often even youthful. existence expectancy grew to become into very distinctive in historical Rome. maximum females human beings purely reached their Nineteen Twenties and Thirties, in the event that they have been fortunate. women in many cases died in childbirth or have been weakened from having too many infants. women human beings have been predicted to have many babies through fact they weren't in any respect effective what number would attain adulthood. Aristocratic families needed male infants to maintain on the relatives call and lineage, and different halves have been continually pregnant. Infertility grew to become into grounds for divorce.

Answer 6

No, the simple thought of me "owning" a human being is sickening. A human is a free being. Some people enjoy cleaning for a living..but thats their choice.

Answer 7

Given my ancestors, if I were around in Roman times, I probably would have been a slave.

Answer 8

It would be nice if i was rich to afford a slave and afford everything i wanted! i think about slave dressed in rags and cleaning the floors, licking my feet and shoes and massaging my feet and myself there are many thinsg to do!!

Answer 9

No. The thought of "owning" another human being is
repellent.

If you want a massage,go to a day spa.

Answer 10

I don't think that people even have 24 hour butlers anymore.

If you want a slave, get a husband; I am a slave to my wife.

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