--- In LibertarianEnterprise@yahoogroups.com, "Gary F. York" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Zack Bass wrote: > > > Even today, the problem with a Slavery Contract > > is not that the Owner > > will try to take the Slave to Court, it is that > > the Owner will be put in a Cage! > > I think you are overlooking the main issue: can such a contract -- a > real, 'forever I'm a slave' contract, be valid in a libertarian society? >
It can be valid in a LOT of societies, ESPECIALLY one that allows ALL Contracts that do not involve Initiation Of Force Or Fraud. Slavery has been part of human societies for thousands of years, including most of the time that Americans have had societies (beginning at least by the sixteenth century). Ninety percent of those Slaves were Involuntary Slaves, but ten percent were Voluntary Slaves and would be so in a libertarian land too.
