Originally posted by @philokalia
I am not sure if you guys are cut out for serious meta-ethical conversations about maximizing the good in a situation with limited capabilities. You should just watch sports or AJ+ viral videos and cry at the end of sad movies the next time you get the urge to try something deeper. It's just not for you.
If you want to look at slavery and talk about it as having been virtuous, or misanthropic, or economically beneficial etc. that's fine. Go for it.
You don't believe in "rights" and "freedoms" of your fellow humans anyway and you refuse to recognize or assume that your fellow citizens are valuable and wanted. So it's of a piece for you, it would seem.
I think legal slavery was, morally speaking ~ a dark period in human history and I welcome the moral enlightenment that brought it to an end,consigning it - as it has been - to the reviled, illegal margins of humanity's ghastly margins, exactly where it belongs.
I'd probably have condoned slavery in the past too. There are people who condone it even today as it arguably makes commercial sense and turns poverty into a economic opportunity.