RolfAndreassen comments on What did governments get right? Gotta list them all! - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 18 September 2013 02:10:49PM 1 point [-]

For which government are you counting that as an achievement?

Comment author: wedrifid 18 September 2013 05:39:45PM *  0 points [-]

For which government are you counting that as an achievement?

Apparently the governments of "every other nation on earth". Which is odd, because I don't think my country achieved that. I can only assume countries which never had slavery are excluded.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 18 September 2013 06:49:06PM *  5 points [-]

Did your locale never have slavery, or did it just never have slavery under a particular flag?

My understanding is that slavery was a near universal in the last couple thousand years of human history, and lack of slavery was the exception.

Comment author: Randaly 18 September 2013 10:01:12PM 4 points [-]

Australia had slavery. It was entirely unregulated until 1868. The practice mostly ended when Australia decided on a mass deportation of all Pacific Islanders in 1901, for racial reasons.