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Originally Posted by Trollheart
You're telling me some people are happy to be slaves? I can't believe that. I can believe being conditioned into being made to believe there's no alternative - look at all the Jews who walked meekly to their deaths in pits that became mass graves in WW II - but actually like it? Nah. You're going to have to do a lot more to convince me anyone can like being a slave, other than in a sexually kinky way.
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With slavery you have to keep in mind how much of their identity is wrapped up in being a slave. Hopefully, a person could see their worth as a human outside of their role in the institution of slavery but imagine a person born into bondage, never educated, no hint at another existence at all. To a person of a certain psychological disposition to say they didn’t like being a slave was tantamount to the untenable position that they didn’t want to exist at all. Furthermore, although incorrect it would be easy to see opposition to slavery as opposition to everything she is. So her coping mechanism might seem unimaginable until you dig deeper into how it was formed.