Kennedy: “No, it’s a…
Kennedy: “No, it’s a contract for specific performance.”
Let’s say I sign a contract with you, selling myself into bondage as a farm worker for the rest of my life (in return, say, for an annuity given to my children). After a few weeks I realize that this really sucks, refuse to work, and when you threaten to whip me, I run away.
If human rights are inalienable (and they are), there’s no legitimate basis for you to send out the hounds and force me to come back. Most people would say that what you are doing is using force to keep me in slavery—even though I signed a contract for specific performance.
Is this relevantly different from the situation of a soldier being forced not to “desert” if he decides that he’s not going to fight anymore, such that one is slavery and the other is not? If it is, then how?
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