John Locke Pro Slavery Speech

To be rather blunt I have never condoned or even agreed to the fact that people enslaving others is morally correct. I am one to agree however that it would be gods doing to define people's enslavement by social class if it were ever in other words “ethical.” Being one of the great founding fathers of our inalienable rights, I still believe all are equal in a way that no one person would throw themselves into slavery under somebody else’s rule voluntarily. However, I believe there are few ways one can be enslaved.

Hi my name is John Locke I have been an influential philosopher especially on modern law, I was born august 29th in Wrington, United Kingdom. I have proved to be controversial on the topic but I am pro slavery. It was true, I participated in the slave trade but never did I myself own or have any form of slavery under my authority.

Capital punishment is what someone receives when they deserve the death penalty. “If I commit a crime worthy of death, that the individual or group I have harmed can choose to commute a sentence of death to a sentence of slavery.” I do believe that persons are equal and contain a right to choose, I also believe that if one does not have the right to take their own life, then nobody has the right to take his or her life, slavery is not death but punishment enough. Through trials and tribulations I can see one being turned into a slave because of their actions, but life to death is never approachable. People deserve to live in slavery to ensure proper punishment of a persons sin or true guilt.

When someone commits a crime that is deserving of a death sentence, these people are giving up their freedom. Once their freedom is given, consent is drawn to enslave this person, they lose the right to be free when the act of crime was committed.

If someone were to just be walking in the street and they get mugged or harassed by someone and this person in self defense were to kill the mugger, they also have taken his/her liberty. This man will not walk the street, eat food, or see his children again, his liberty was stripped when he was killed. One cannot take another's liberty because they themselves don't have the right to do so either. Slavery does not strip your freedom, one still lives to see another day but it takes away one liberty and freedom for a time being. The necessary thing; if you take someone's natural rights away, don't you deserve something taken from you as well.

After battles in war, people are captured. War captives if you will. These people also have rights and should not have their life, liberty taken from them but they were committing an act of wrong when they decided to fight against these enslavers. These people signed their liberty away with the army they approached. Still I do not condone slavery of others voluntarily or otherwise but for punishment that is deserving of death slavery is the only other option that will suffice. People don't deserve to die, they deserve life even if it be labor for work it is still security of life and freedom.