1. Most people can see the obvious problems with this, but worth noting that insidious thing here is that in defining Hemings etc. as "slaves who agreed to be slaves" (or more Freudenly as "salves") goal is to shift moral onus from slave-owners to enslaved.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1122269282539274240 …
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A professor of mine objected to the idea that there was a discourse between master and slave. The slave was structurally silenced...and legally incapable of "bargaining" in any sense of the word.
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A refusal to see society and structures and what they mean and instead to see all of life in terms of individual deal making sounds like a lazy - but not inaccurate - critique of libertarianism
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Hanson thinks Sophie’s Choice is a movie about decision theory
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Isn’t there some kind of term for rights that can’t be bargained away?
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