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Ethical Issues In Slavery
.Ethics is a moral belief, something that a person feels real strongly about, like abortion, abstinence, religion. And, Law is written by the powers of the government. When slavery was legal many years ago, it was ethical to the ones who were owners: However, not the enslave people. I feel many of us are still in slavery times. We may not receive lashing for wrong doing anymore, but we are written up or terminated for not maintaining production level in a warehouse not picking enough produce. At least now people are being paid for it. But it is still not enough to take care and feed one’s

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