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.
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.
LeftCoastKen Premium Member almost 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…
Robert Wilson Premium Member almost 3 years ago
IIRC, Aesop was possibly from West Africa. No one knows. How he ended up in Rome is anybody’s guess.
Thinkingblade almost 3 years ago
It did make him more conscious of the value of the choices he could make.
sandpiper almost 3 years ago
Wonder if anyone listened at the time. Seems his words were included in collections of homilies much later.
patmobley almost 3 years ago
The choice is remain a slave or kill your owner – and be executed fpr murder.
DM2860 almost 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.
triathlete1066 Premium Member almost 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.
Stephen Gilberg almost 3 years ago
We have no reliable sources to say that Aesop was a slave.
GreggW Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Lean freedom is better than fat slavery, now buzz off.
mmduzi almost 3 years ago
Aesop was not born a slave. He was sold into slavery in Greece by Phrygian slavers. Definitely not his choice
JoeMartinFan Premium Member almost 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.