The bible also promotes slavery as an institution.
AyameTan,
That is just ignorant ! The term slave as used in the very early days meant working for keep & wages as in working for an employer. The term Slave was gradually corrupted & distorted from its original course & meaning just as the terms gay & partner have been perverted.

Mr Opinion, you've been belittling everyone who accepts the fact of AGW. You've tried to minimize its reality, and insulted every scientists who reports on it.

Individual: Slavery in the OT wasn't like indentured servitude. Wages weren't mandatory. Slaves were only paid IF and ONLY IF their owners felt generous. Which meant almost never in practice.

Why pay someone if you're not legally obligated to? Human decency is the only reason I can think of. Do you think the slave owners paid their slaves? They were willing to kidnap girls back then.

If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him. Exodus 21:3

If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself. Exodus 21:4

And if the slave shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. Exodus 21:5-6

If he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; Then thou shalt take an aul, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy slave for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. Deuteronomy 15:16-17

And if a man sell his daughter to be a slave, she shall not go free as the menservants do. Exodus 21:7

The LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people. And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain. Deuteronomy 2:33-34

AyameTan just said:

'Mr Opinion, you've been belittling everyone who accepts the fact of AGW. You've tried to minimize its reality, and insulted every scientists who reports on it.'

Anyone like to second that?

We're all going on a summer holiday.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/defence-minister-linda-reynolds-confirms-she-spent-christmas-in-bali/news-story/83105d6d44f933d0b3ce801d02136d4a

Hey AyameTan,

"You did have a choice. You could've let him suffer and die naturally. Just like Christians do all the time."

Well I didn't see it that way, he'd suffered enough.
I don't think I spared any expense getting tests done or for his stay at the vets as an inpatient for those 7 - 10 days, before I took him out for his last week before he went back to be put to sleep.
That was 16 years ago now.

He was terminally ill with multiple myeloma which had a 100% mortality rate.
The only thing that might've saved him was bismuth 213, and I didn't know about it until I joined this forum.

As for Dash, I had money to take him to the vets on Saturday, but he wasn't my dog.
My friend, his owner had less of a means to do so, which is why I feel regret for not putting him in the car myself.
I didn't realise he was in such a dire situation, and I could've done something to fix it.
His death was preventable.

Went to Kmart yesterday and printed out all the photos of short life and put it in an album.
This helped the owners grieving process.

Viewing and last goodbyes today after lunch, and he'll be cremated tonight.

Putting aside the human cost of these bushfires, it's sad for all the many thousands of animals that have died as a result of these bushfires.