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Counterpoint: don't try to own people like farm animals. Have pride in humanity, faith in your fellow man, and resist toxic cynicism.
If as GP says, people are actively choosing to become passive and dependent like farm animals, is it immoral to become the farmer? The alternative is to join them. It’s not in anyone’s power to force the rest of society to “be free.”
What about the other alternative of neither farming nor joining them?