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Originally Posted by Dowie
Why are the lives of slaves comparable to buying stock in a company? I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say but if that was an attempt to sum up what I posted previously then you're way off the mark.
I'll go through this again.
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Originally Posted by Dowie
Well perhaps the direct descendants of those slaves can lobby for some form of stake in the rail company...
The owners of the railroad stock shouldn't get to keep ringing up profit forever off of slave labor, period. There's no moral statute of limitations here.
What difference does it make about direct living descendants. If today, I enslave a few folks, prostitute them, use the profits to buy stock in CSX, and they all die without heirs... why does it matter there ain't any direct descendants? Do I "deserve" the stock too?
How is that any difference than inheriting the CSX stock directly? This is what I'm talking about you equating: buying stock==being enslaved.
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... you've got to still make a decision as to how much of the current company's value is down to the input of slaves a few generations ago...
Uh, we already got a way of doing that. It's called civil court