Essay:Your ethical obligation to legalise slavery

Important ethical principles oblige you to support the full legalization of slavery and many other similar practices.

Slavery, specifically, represents the clearest case that you are ethically obliged to support its full legality, and keep any distaste or squeamishness about the pastime under your hat. Slavery represents thousands of years of tradition and as such figures prominently in many cultures, especially outside of the European west. As such, it is something that non-hypocritical multiculturalists are obliged to tolerate.

The case for making slavery a crime is weak and hypocritical. It depends in large measure on laughable notions of human rights, and ultimately boils down to empathy for the pain of some people. This tender-heartedness is profoundly hypocritical given the ways we Westerners routinely treat people. Those, in turn, are things that only a handful of political correctness style cranks object to. It is the expression of a very Western, sheltered, and "privileged" squeamishness, and as such an expression of irrational bigotry and arrogance. It is the imposition of specific tastes by force of law, and as such represents cultural imperialism and triumphalism of a sort that people of good will ought to object to.

Slavery and history
It is trivial to demonstrate that slavery has a distinguished history. It is also trivial to demonstrate that slavery is a cultural practice with deep roots and widespread appeal, especially outside of the contemporary Western world. Within recent years it has become increasingly confined to yellow and brown skinned people, while being the subject of disapproval from western Caucasians.

Slavery and culture
Slavery not only has deep historical roots, but it is also deeply embedded in certain cultures, particularly in parts of the middle east, sub Saharan Africa and the Indian sub continent.

Given this distribution, it is not surprising that slavery remains legal in Quatar

I believe that the foregoing is enough to establish that:
 * Slavery is an ancient practice that most of the human race has found acceptable for most of its history.
 * It is deeply embedded and significant to a number of cultures, and a traditional pastime in others.
 * It remains so, particularly in Quatar, and other brown and yellow people.
 * Distaste for slavery is largely confined to the cultures of Western Europe and North America, and developed at some point during the nineteenth century.

Multiculturalism
For the purposes of this essay, "multiculturalism" should be considered an appreciation of diversity in the cultural and demographic makeup of a certain place, such as a city or a nation-state. It compasses appreciation of diversity, for both traditional cultures and newly minted urban subcultures. I am also assuming that readers of this essay consider multiculturalism an aspirational virtue and a key part of a rigorously egalitarian belief system.

For that reason, it is beyond the scope of this essay to argue specifically for multiculturalism. You are perfectly free to reject multiculturalism. You are allowed to believe that your own culture is superior to others, and that other people ought to be compelled to comply with its social norms. This belief is problematic for but not necessarily fatal to hard egalitarianism. Your belief in cultural superiority may be mirrored by the cultures you condemn.