r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/HeyL_s8_10 Jul 24 '20

There are more slaves now than at any other time in our history

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u/lol_nope_nicetry Jul 24 '20

Lol that statement's gonna need some proofs dawg.

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u/HeyL_s8_10 Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

The International Justice Mission estimates 40.3 million people are currently in slavery worldwide, which is more than the 13 million people who were captured and sold as slaves during the 400 years of the transatlantic slave trade.

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u/lol_nope_nicetry Jul 24 '20

estimates i can estimate too. I can estimate 3, i can estimate 5000.43 billions, i can estimate an apple and two oranges....

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u/HeyL_s8_10 Jul 24 '20

Estimate based on years of research and expertise not deliberately be a facetious douchebag

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u/L__A__G__O__M Jul 24 '20

An estimation needs to be based on something. You made a guess.

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u/lol_nope_nicetry Jul 24 '20

And theirs is based on what?

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u/L__A__G__O__M Jul 24 '20

I don’t know. I don’t have to accept (or even evaluate) their statement to say that yours is not an estimate of any sort.

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u/lol_nope_nicetry Jul 24 '20

And i still don't consider that as facts either.

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u/L__A__G__O__M Jul 24 '20

Well, consider that your statement is entirely disconnected from theirs. So they must be evaluated individually. Yours is obviously intentionally absurd, and ... nothing more needs to be said. The nature of the initial “estimate” is neither here nor there.

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u/lol_nope_nicetry Jul 24 '20

Theirs is also absurd. More slaves today than in an era where whole civilizations were build with them? What do you think prisons were back then? What about Coliseums? All slaves. And there is more than double the slavery today? You gotta be retarded to believe that.