On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 18:57:18 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
wrote:

No. Human rights and legal rights are two different things.

Not really. If rights are not legally defended they don't exist. They
aren't rights, they're just claims.

Otherwise, we would have no way of saying that slavery was wrong
then, no way of saying why it would be a bad idea to reintroduce
it now.

Slavery isn't wrong in any universal way. In some societies it's been
morally good, essential for the survival of the society.

(I'm always amused in discussions about ethics when people bring up
slavery. It demonstrates the profound cultural bias people have on the
subject these days. A bias that would have not been understood at all
throughout most of history, in most cultures, where slavery was a
simple norm. It's not unlike people automatically bringing up Hitler
as the embodiment of evil.)