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Do you think this points to some inherent truth about slavery?

Asked by EmpressPixie (14760points) April 1st, 2009

BoingBoing linked to this article today about ant slavery.

In short, there is a species of ants that make slaving raids on other colonies. They then raise their slaves and make them work in their colony. In the new colony, some of the slave-ants have started killing the slaver species’ pupae.

Do you think this points to some inherent truth about slavery? Am I simply imposing my own morality into the story? Or is this purely a matter of survival for the ants?

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