WHO WANTS TO BE A SLAVE DRIVER? WHO WANTS TO BE A SLAVE?

Citizen Tom

A slave is punished by paddling. Picture from here. See also Paddling: A History.

Why this post? When I was reading Dancing on Herman Cain’s Grave? (insanitybytes2.wordpress.com), it occurred to me to wonder why we would be so malicious.

The dead are at the bottom of the “pecking order“. They have no way of defending themselves.

Ecclesiastes 9:4-5 New American Standard Bible

⁴ For whoever is joined with all the living, there is hope; surely a live dog is better than a dead lion. ⁵ For the living know they will die; but the dead do not know anything, nor have they any longer a reward, for their memory is forgotten.

Whom can we most persecute among the living? Those we call our slaves. Who wants to be a slave driver? Who wants to be a slave? The answers to those questions would seem to be nobody…

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