For the sake of experiment, imagine that air has zero viscosity. In this scenario, would a feather and a cannon ball fall in the same time?
I believe the answer is “yes”, but I had to think about that for a moment. I’m not sure how that’s relevant to the current discussion, though.
I think your real point might be closer to something like, “thought experiments are useless at best, and should thus be avoided”, but I don’t want to put words into anyone’s mouth.
My point was something like, “of course if you assume away all the things that cause slave labour to be bad then slave labour is no longer bad, but that observation doesn’t yield much of an insight about the real world”.
That makes sense, but I don’t think it’s what Viliam_Bur was talking about. His point, as far as I could tell, was that the problem with slave labor is the coercion, not the labor itself.
I believe the answer is “yes”, but I had to think about that for a moment. I’m not sure how that’s relevant to the current discussion, though.
I think your real point might be closer to something like, “thought experiments are useless at best, and should thus be avoided”, but I don’t want to put words into anyone’s mouth.
My point was something like, “of course if you assume away all the things that cause slave labour to be bad then slave labour is no longer bad, but that observation doesn’t yield much of an insight about the real world”.
That makes sense, but I don’t think it’s what Viliam_Bur was talking about. His point, as far as I could tell, was that the problem with slave labor is the coercion, not the labor itself.