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Re: Define "Slavery in the traditional sense exists in significant numbers only in barbarian societies"

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Re: "I do not know about you yet if the estimated 40,000,000+ people are indeed enslaved that, to me, is a SIGNIFICANT number regardless of demographics."I can't read your link due to having used up my quota of free articles with the Washington Post.

40 million is a lot of people. But it works out to about one half of one percent of the world's population... and that's well within the margin of error of most statistical samplings. In other words, the number could possibly be 2.5 percent or it could be zero. So, I question the number.

I also question the definition of "slave" used in the article since I have no idea what it is. Are we including North Korea? That's 26 million people right there. How about prostitutes under the control of pimps? Child workers in Bangladesh? Muslim women who can't leave their home alone?

I'm not trying to make light of the problem, just to understand it and figure out whether the "slavery" being talked about by the Washington Post is the same as what once existed in the U.S. (I don't think the term truly applies unless the victim has no means of escape.) The Washington Post does tend to exaggerate.

BTW, when I looked into the number earlier, I came away with 30 million from a 2013 article in the Washington Post. You just posted 40 million from a 2017 Washington Post article. That suggests to me tremendous uncertainty -- that nobody really knows the number. Or changing definitions... something I'm always wary of. There are women in NOW who claim that every married woman is a slave. Ha! See below:




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Define "Slavery in the traditional sense exists in significant numbers only in barbarian societies"
By: hydro_gen in POPE 5
Tue, 30 Jul 19 10:08 PM 		Msg. 36925 of 62138

I do not know about you yet if the estimated 40,000,000+ people are indeed enslaved that, to me, is a SIGNIFICANT number regardless of demographics.

http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/data/maps/#prevalence

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/09/19/there-are-an-estimated-40-million-slaves-in-the-world-where-do-they-live-and-what-do-they-do/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.303945552829

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