Word: chattel
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Domesticated animals such as dogs are chattel in our society. You own a dog. You do not merely hold guardianship over it. However, dogs are not without rights. I cannot go out, buy a dog, and then use the dog to demonstrate the power of my new chainsaw. If I were to perpetrate such a heinous act, I would be brought to court and would face criminal charges. The dog’s interests, then, would be represented in court by the district attorney. Now, if a dog has the right to be represented by a human, how much more...
...Nevertheless, efforts to slow the trade are gathering momentum. A year ago the commerce in women was low on the list of international organizations' priorities. Today, thanks in part to growing concern about trafficking in asylum seekers-a different category of chattel-new attempts have been proposed to prosecute the guilty. Not long ago the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (O.S.C.E.) set up a task force to coordinate initiatives throughout the Balkans. Witness protection programs are on the books in a few countries. And Kosovo, under U.N. administration, last year drafted a comprehensive antitrafficking law, though the province...
...paradise. Wake up, sleep through class, then go home and have sex with hot girls.' Parody of a National Honor Society charter, next page: 'If you see someone say something rude to a lady in the cafeteria, you should kill this person. The girl will then be your chattel.' It stays pretty much like that for the rest of the book. Maybe the Lampoon's market research showed that only insecure heterosexual men with poor social skills would buy a college guide parody book. But probably not. This humor, more than likely, came straight from the heart...
...about 10,000 years ago. For one thing, the changing diet allowed girls to fatten up for puberty earlier and wean their babies faster, thus bearing more babies per lifetime. Men began to define land and animals as property and sources of prestige, it would seem, and women as chattel to be fought over...