Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 27, 2021

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    LeftCoastKen Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Caulfield, you know better than to think Aesop got to choose to be born a slave. There are, after all, SOME things you don’t get a choice about…

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    Robert Wilson Premium Member about 3 years ago

    IIRC, Aesop was possibly from West Africa. No one knows. How he ended up in Rome is anybody’s guess.

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    Thinkingblade  about 3 years ago

    It did make him more conscious of the value of the choices he could make.

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    sandpiper  about 3 years ago

    Wonder if anyone listened at the time. Seems his words were included in collections of homilies much later.

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    patmobley  about 3 years ago

    The choice is remain a slave or kill your owner – and be executed fpr murder.

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    DM2860  about 3 years ago

    So it was not about everything happening in your life. It is about your choices having consequences. Being born a slave would have impacted his choices in life but those choices still had consequences. The context of those choices does not change that.

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    triathlete1066 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    If Aesop stories had been about whining about the circumstances one was born into, pretty sure he wouldn’t be remembered all of these years later.

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 3 years ago

    We have no reliable sources to say that Aesop was a slave.

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    GreggW Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Lean freedom is better than fat slavery, now buzz off.

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    mmduzi  about 3 years ago

    Aesop was not born a slave. He was sold into slavery in Greece by Phrygian slavers. Definitely not his choice

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    JoeMartinFan Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Caulfield’s trying way too hard to paint personal responsibility as some sort of myth. Circumstances of birth are only a part of anyone’s story – just look up Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass. And in free, modern life, personal choice is a huge factor in determining life consequences because we have so many choices. No amount of twisted logic can change that.

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