Seriously think about this before you answer, and please don't nitpick the details of this hypothetical situation as the fundamental question should be obvious.
Imagine your country is going through the biggest economical recession ever. Within a very short time period, you and everyone else in your country will become extremely poor, to the point where you can only afford one bread a day per person, have only one hour of cold running water per day etc... And it's going to stay like this for at least 100 years, with no possibility of economical recovery.
The only way out is to return enslaving foreign people of a different ethnicity, who live in a country on the other side of the world. Your goverment is holding a referendum on whether to install slavery. If it passes, everyone stays as wealthy as they are. If it doesn't pass you'll live in great poverty for the rest of your life.
For the purposes of this question we will assume that their will be no tangible downsides to slavery. No violence. No revolution. No recriminations from other countries. No affect on your afterlife. You aren't in any way related to any of the people who will become enslaved. The voting is of course completely anonymous. The only downside to voting for the slavery is that you are voting to do someting that is obviously wrong.
How would you vote on this referendum? Yes or no?
(someone pls add a poll, preferably anonymous)
Imagine your country is going through the biggest economical recession ever. Within a very short time period, you and everyone else in your country will become extremely poor, to the point where you can only afford one bread a day per person, have only one hour of cold running water per day etc... And it's going to stay like this for at least 100 years, with no possibility of economical recovery.
The only way out is to return enslaving foreign people of a different ethnicity, who live in a country on the other side of the world. Your goverment is holding a referendum on whether to install slavery. If it passes, everyone stays as wealthy as they are. If it doesn't pass you'll live in great poverty for the rest of your life.
For the purposes of this question we will assume that their will be no tangible downsides to slavery. No violence. No revolution. No recriminations from other countries. No affect on your afterlife. You aren't in any way related to any of the people who will become enslaved. The voting is of course completely anonymous. The only downside to voting for the slavery is that you are voting to do someting that is obviously wrong.
How would you vote on this referendum? Yes or no?
(someone pls add a poll, preferably anonymous)
