{"id":36128,"date":"2016-10-26T01:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36128"},"modified":"2018-09-18T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T18:13:19","slug":"qotd-argument-against-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/10\/26\/qotd-argument-against-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Argument against slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Aphorism inspired by some smarmy political writing against libertarianism that I saw earlier today:<\/p>\n<p>The polite answer to someone arguing that a slave should learn to love his chains is an extended counterargument, but the <em>correct<\/em> answer is a bullet through the arguer&#8217;s head.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+EricRaymond\/posts\/hLtzTXpFYGJ\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Google+<\/em><\/a>, 2016-10-15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aphorism inspired by some smarmy political writing against libertarianism that I saw earlier today: The polite answer to someone arguing that a slave should learn to love his chains is an extended counterargument, but the correct answer is a bullet through the arguer&#8217;s head.\ufeff Eric S. Raymond, Google+, 2016-10-15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41],"tags":[1235,605],"class_list":["post-36128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-esr","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9oI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36129,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36128\/revisions\/36129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}