I ... AM ... SPARTACUS! It has been a very long time since I have watched this movie. Long enough, in fact, that my only memory i really have is Kirk Douglas in armor, and the more recent movie Gladiator keeps getting in the way. Now i am going to have to see if my parents still have this movie on VHS.
To the point of the blog, however, it is interesting to note that a great mind such as Aristotle felt that slavery was right and natural, and that the superior person had an obligation to rule over the inferior and the inferior person an obligation to serve. While i disagree with the direct ownership of human beings, i do see his point of there being a 'superior' and 'inferior'. Though most people will balk at the use of this word, we have all made ourselves slaves in one way or another. It is self imposed slavery, to be sure, but slavery nonetheless. We always are in a position of power over someone or something and thus superior, and conversly we are in the inferior postition in as many different ways.
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I agree that the idea of superior and inferior are still part of our daily lives. We make judgements everyday and very often put things into the catogories of superior or inferior. I think judgements are good and neccesary when we're buying a car or new shoes. Putting indivduals in catagories of superior or inferior because of sex or race is wrong. Judging a human should be based on merit and on things they can control not their genetic structure.
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