# urth-urth.net Digest, Vol 6, Issue 7 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 04 Feb 2005* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jim Raylor *04 Feb 2005, 16:37* >> [1] I won't say steriotype as there may have been >> one or two of this kind >> lurking around the more unpleasant reaches of 20th >> century research, eg. >> those motherhood experiments with monkeys, etc. Yes, I agree that Harlow's inhumane experiments left their mark here. >> Iorwerth > Wolfe sets his face like granite against this > slavery, in book after book. I agree that he often discusses slavery. Often he submits arguments in favour of it. I think he understood that slavery was not always a bad thing... if the slave was willing. === message truncated === ===== http://prisoner143.50megs.com/ I am not a number I am a free person! --- ### Chris *04 Feb 2005, 17:02 · in reply to Jim Raylor* The one and only argument that might be considered pro-slavery that I can recall from Wolfe offhand is the reminder that *for the ancients* a certain amount slavery was actually the humane way to eliminate a conquered city as a potential threat - the alternative being wholesale slaughter. I don't think that could be held as a pro-slavery argument in anything like this context. >> Wolfe sets his face like granite against this >> slavery, in book after book. > I agree that he often discusses slavery. > Often he submits arguments in favour of it. > I think he understood that slavery was not always a > bad thing... if the slave was willing. > > === message truncated === > > ===== > http://prisoner143.50megs.com/ > > I am not a number I am a free person! > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! > http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ ---