I consider preservation of human life a terminal goal as opposed to the intermediate goal that is personal freedom.
Uh, wow. That’s exactly backwards for me. Otherwise, With Folded Hands would be a utopia rather than the dystopia most agree it is.
Likewise, your stance appears to rate slave rebellions as worse than the slaves obeying quietly—you have to go to secondary assertions such as “slave societies will undervalue their slaves and waste their lives”, which is not entirely self-evident.
Uh, wow. That’s exactly backwards for me. Otherwise, With Folded Hands would be a utopia rather than the dystopia most agree it is.
Likewise, your stance appears to rate slave rebellions as worse than the slaves obeying quietly—you have to go to secondary assertions such as “slave societies will undervalue their slaves and waste their lives”, which is not entirely self-evident.