Imagine This for a Moment

Imagine you are a slave.
Someone else's property.
A means to someone else's end.

Imagine you are seen as nothing but an object.
A commodity. A number.
Imagine your whole life is under the control of another.

Imagine you live in a small cage with other slaves.
Your life is a miserable existence.
A small cage among many other cages.
Thousands of slaves, caged in dark sheds.

Once your oppressors are done using you,
They will take you from your cage,
And painfully take your life.
After this they will take you apart,
And sell your flesh.

While you linger in your prison,
Awaiting your fate,
You hear that there are people out there,
Appalled by your oppression.

They are outraged. They want you to be treated as the sentient person you are.

Some of these people speak out about the injustice of your slavery. They protest your status as a piece of property. They advocate for your freedom from your prison and for society's recognition of you as a someone, not a something.

But others find this unrealistic. They think your oppressors won't understand. So instead of asking for your freedom, they ask for your cage to be a little bit bigger.

They ask for you to be fed healthy food (as if you want to live longer in this miserable existence).
They ask for you to get a bit more light.
They ask for you to be handled less roughly while you are being exploited, controlled, confined, and mutilated.
They ask for you to have more water while you are being transported to your death. They ask for your life to be taken more quickly and with less pain.
They ask for you to be enslaved, exploited, controlled, mutilated, manipulated, imprisoned, restrained, tormented, and killed with "kindness".

Some people who once ate the products slaves like you produced eagerly await this change, so that they may happily use slaves like you once again, with a clear conscience.

How do you feel?
How do you, the slave, feel about these people?
How do you feel about those who are advocating for your "compassionate" exploitation?
How do you feel about those who refuse to promote your "kind" oppression and speak for your rights to not be treated as property?
How do you feel about those who look forward to the "kind" oppression some promote so that they may once again feel comfortable with using you and slaves like you?

Would you accept compromise if you were the slave? Or would you want nothing less than the right to your own life? Think about it.