Blog 5- Arguing the Unarguable; slavery

For over 300 years slavery was a prime source of labor, in America. It saved money by not having so many employed or not paying everyone, slavery gave money to only a certain amount of people which kept things into circulation. There are so many reason why slavery should be brought back in today’s society. Honestly it would change everything and make things a lot simpler and perhaps change and make our economy and money circulation so much better.

The topic of slavery in the 1800’s was pretty much black or white; I guess that could be used in a literal aspect as well. But for this example I mean it was black or white by saying people, mostly in the South agreed with the use of slaves for labor. Or people most in the North and other regions did not agree with slavery and/or saw no need for it. My argument for slavery starts with a quote from the Bible, Leviticus 25:44 it states “Your male and female slaves are to come from nations around you; from them you may by slaves”. This is stated in the bible Americans and people all around the world are usually big on religion, it’s a major factor in almost everyone’s lives faith and/or religion. The statement above is saying it is okay to own or buy slaves from people or countries not close to you. Basically that we should not enslave our own people but enslave people of character that we do not know, or people not from our country.

Another big issue in the society of America is the economy, and low employment. Back in the day when slavery was around we barely heard of problems like this. People who owned slaves ruled the economy, and circulation of money and everything else that went around the world or country. Have you ever heard the statement that most people born or living with money are usually more responsible with it than those who come into money. For example the people who enslaved in the 1800’s were pretty much already wealthy people, most being born into it . Which is why most of the money was invested and not just spent outrageously, we need a change in America to help our economy get better. With slavery there will be no problem with unemployment because people are forced to work, and no problem with having money or national debt because most of these people are not getting paid.

I think slavery would be very beneficial to the United States, not the same slavery as in the 1800’s and conditions not be as harsh, and not just slavery on only black people it could be white people to even Mexicans, mostly poor people. The ones who are not benefiting to the economy or able to take care of themselves.

Technologically dependent; Blog 4

            For about 20 years now the world has become very digitized, as in very technologically applicable. We have opportunities such as books to be eBooks, as in not going to a library and checking out a book; but going online and saving it to your kindle device, or even an application on your phone. Even the whole process of watching movies have changed, or not even watching them but checking them out, instead of going to a blockbuster down the street and looking through thousands of movies, you can drive to the corner store and just search the redbox, or log on to your Netflix account and stream the movie from your computer to your television, which is not only cheaper but easier. But not only has the entertainment retrospect of life has changed but so has other stuff like going to the doctor’s office, most offices don’t save background information on files anymore but rather on computers, and flash drives to save space and even save tree’s. So if the whole computer system was to shut down what would they do? Of course most have back-up drives and such but still there is a small possibility that may not be reliable. The question asked in this blog is technology eventually going to ruin  mankind? Ruin us as in if they whole world had some kind of catastrophic disaster and aliens or even other types of creatures or humans invaded us, would they know anything about us? No they wouldn’t, especially if they did not have the same kind of technology as we do. Such as computers, laptops, iPhones, email addresses, or even if this disaster didn’t ruin every bit of electronics we had would these creatures know how to work it, probably not. If our 50 year old parents barely can work a computer and someone is clearly showing them how, how on the earth do you expect someone or something to learn with no help at all? Ultimately this would become a problem, not necessarily for the people ruined by the disaster but for the people coming to earth. Why? Because they wouldn’t know anything about what possibly happened to us, what we were like, how to maybe help the planet and not hurt us. They wouldn’t know how to access any of that information because we are so technologically dependent. When we have artifacts from the past it helps us maintain our present; such as the declaration of independence, if people never had found that, or been able to understand it our country or even the world may not be what it is today, it could be totally chaotic and out of control because we would have no since of government. So in reality this isn’t hurting us, because we know how to use and develop technology but it could possibly hurt future generations, creatures, or beings that come to our planet; only in the case of catastrophic event.