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Could the downvoters please explain their decision? I'm genuinely confused why this warrants -4 at the time of writing.
I can speculate that they might think proportional arguments in such cases are obviously correct. If so, could you at least, say, link to an argument? (The controversial nature of the Repugnant Conclusion at least shows that it isn't obvious.) Or is it something else?
The point of that is that slavery used to be something normal, and now it no longer is.