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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9565582" data-attributes="member: 6790260">No, it cannot, unless one is using the term purely metaphorically--in which case, it isn't actually slavery. Actual, real slavery--which is what you literally referred to it as before, up to and including saying things like "oh so I guess Good is in favor of slavery now?"--is explicitly something involuntary, enforced through threats of violence or realized violence."the practice or institution of holding people as chattel involuntarily and under threat of violence""the state of a person who is held in forced servitude""Slavery, bondage, servitude refer to involuntary subjection to another or others. Slavery emphasizes the idea of complete ownership and control by an owner or master: to be sold into slavery."Slavery is involuntary. Expecting certain kinds of labor before one is willing to provide certain kinds of credit--be it purely pecuniary credit, or the intangible credit of reputation--is simply the nature of exchange. If another person refuses to credit you with the reputation of being the best of neighbors because they do not believe your behavior has merited such credit, that is not, in any way, a reflection of that person somehow "enslaving" you to their will.The fact that you want something specific from them--being credited with a particular kind of reputation--in no way whatsoever impinges upon them to grant it to you. Per any form of libertarian philosophy I can find (which is pretty obviously what you're applying here, whether you intend it or not), at least libertarian philosophy that actually takes its premises seriously, you would be the one in the wrong for demanding that others give you a reputation they did not freely and willingly assign to you themselves. All association must be voluntary. If you are not willing to partner with others in the way those others expect, that just means you don't get any benefits arising from associating with them. They don't owe you anything, not least a reputation as the best of neighbors.</blockquote>

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