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I was thinking in historical terms when I answered the question. I must say I've never heard of blind people being treated as property before.

Thoughts are already things - they are arrangements of matter and energy within the brain.

World government: If wacko right-wing conspiracy theorists hate it, it must be good.

Good point. Whereas short of finding a genie in a lamp I'm never going to sleep with Angelina Jolie.

No, but capital punishment has a re-offending rate of precisely 0% :D

So I guess it depends on what society believes to be more important - rehabilitation or prevention of re-offending.

As far as I know, none of those groups except blacks had a civil war instigated by people who wanted to keep them enslaved.

No, but they get jealous of me because I can eat more than them without putting on weight.

I voted for religious text. Toilet paper and kindling tend not to be found on remote islands.

More or less what I was going to say.

Alcohol and tobacco are legal, but weed isn't? Such hypocrisy should be fixed, sharpish.