West Virginia couple charged with trafficking their adopted Black children to be used as ‘slaves,’ authorities allege

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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/west-virginia-adopted-black-children-slaves-reaj/index.html

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The thing to understand about slavery is that it only takes the combination of a few human failings to bring a person to accept being a slave owner or even desire it. A lack of empathy, an excess of aggression or hate. Selfishness bordering on narcissism. Just being raised by ignorant racists can be enough to turn an otherwise viable human into a practitioner of slavery. Because so many people struggle for so long to bring us progress they mistakenly believe that an equal effort would be required to pull society back, but unfortunately this is not true. Our base animal psychology is always present and ready to turn us back into savage slave-holding assholes. This is also why so many are convinced of the need for religion. We need an authority, real or imagined, to keep these ignorant fucks from running amuck. Unfortunately the Bible doesn't speak out against slavery with the vehemence with which is speaks out about adultery or pork.