Poll - which do you prefer

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Hi people. šŸ‘‹

Iā€™m doing some research and I would appreciate your help. I have a theory and I want to see if it holds up. Sorry I canā€™t tell you until at present what the theory is as it would affect the result.

Itā€™s a simple question with two options:

If you had a choice, and there are only two choices so if you canā€™t choose donā€™t vote -

Would you prefer to be a benevolent master or a pampered slave?
 
Why would anyone pick the slave? Perhaps a better question would be: would you rather be a mistreated, but moral, slave or an evil, but well off, slave master.
 
Thatā€™s almost the exact wording an atheist friend of mine unfortunately used one conversation.

She thought of Christians as slaves that were tricked into obeying God, their master, because he seemed so benevolent. :o I was just reminded of this conversation. My atheist friend has been quite bitter due to a recent traumatic incident that occurred, so she probably does not really mean it.
 
Neither.

Itā€™s sinful to own slaves, and who wants to be a slave?

I guess if I had a choice I would be the slave, since itā€™s the only choice that doesnā€™t include sin in it.šŸ™‚
 
Iā€™m more of a benevolent tyrant than a ā€œmasterā€ or ā€œslaveā€. šŸ¤·
 
Every owner of a business and every supervisory person of any kind is a ā€œmasterā€ in some way, of others. One hopes one in such a position would be benevolent.

If by ā€œmasterā€ one means an owner of slaves, then the whole thing is a false choice, since there have always been people, the majority, who were neither.
 
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Every owner of a business and every supervisory person of any kind is a ā€œmasterā€ in some way, of others. One hopes one in such a position would be benevolent.

If by ā€œmasterā€ one means an owner of slaves, then the whole thing is a false choice, since there have always been people, the majority, who were neither.
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The ā€˜masterā€™ does not simply mean the owner of slaves.

Ok - my experiment has gone wrong, and I hold my hand up. It is my fault.

I did not want to disclose the reason I posed this question as I was concerned it would produce bias in terms of responses. I think now this was the wrong approach. šŸ˜Š

I will now come clean but please be honest in your voting on the poll. :gopray2:

I concede many who respond to this poll have no desire to be either a benevolent master or a slave, but when faced with only two alternatives, and many societies past and present would present them with only these two alternatives, my guess is most will choose the benevolent master. The reason they will select this option is because it gives them more control over their own destiny. My theory is that loss of control over the situation or circumstances we are in is one of the most if not the most disconcerting experience for humans. We will choose the benevolent master rather than give complete control to another irrespective of how well they may treat us.

Does my question now make sense? In trying to produce an objective response Iā€™ve shot myself in the foot by shutting down what we love most - debate and freedom to express ourselves. Sorry for insulting everyoneā€™s intelligence. :flowers:
 
minkymurph said:
The ā€˜masterā€™ does not simply mean the owner of slaves.

Ok - my experiment has gone wrong, and I hold my hand up. It is my fault.

I did not want to disclose the reason I posed this question as I was concerned it would produce bias in terms of responses. I think now this was the wrong approach. šŸ˜Š

I will now come clean but please be honest in your voting on the poll. :gopray2:

I concede many who respond to this poll have no desire to be either a benevolent master or a slave, but when faced with only two alternatives, and many societies past and present would present them with only these two alternatives, my guess is most will choose the benevolent master. The reason they will select this option is because it gives them more control over their own destiny. My theory is that loss of control over the situation or circumstances we are in is one of the most if not the most disconcerting experience for humans. We will choose the benevolent master rather than give complete control to another irrespective of how well they may treat us.

Does my question now make sense? In trying to produce an objective response Iā€™ve shot myself in the foot by shutting down what we love most - debate and freedom to express ourselves. Sorry for insulting everyoneā€™s intelligence. :flowers:
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I only chose pampered slave because itā€™s sinful to own slavesā€¦

If it was changed to something else, then I definitely would vote in the other category.
 
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