Actually that doesn’t make literal sense. How can the degree of a category remove it from the category? We could have subcategories, but those don’t remove from the main category.
This can be within scientific categories and within everyday speech, and some of my examples were examples of this. I included when one is exposed to heat, which is what causes burns, but it is not a burn.
If it is not a burn, then it is not a burn. If it is a burn, then it is a burn. Seems easy. The degree of a burn cannot mean it is not a burn or there wouldn’t be a degree to it.
The degree of the effects of the heat, if low enough, no longer qualify it, in medicine, as a burn.
If it is not a burn because no damage was done, then it is in the category of near-burn.
Further you have the assumption of your conclusion in your argument. Eating is, for you, some degree of slavery, so it is merely a difference in degree, hence it is slavery. Even if no one owns you and could sell you, you still want that to be defined as slavery.
Slavery doesn’t mean ownership. Ownership means ownership. Indeed, I own animals but do not subject them to any sort of work. They’re called pets. And I could borrow your car and make it my slave for the evening, but I do not own the car.
A drop of water on the ground is not a lake or an ocean. It’s not even a puddle.
To bacteria it is.
Someone gently caressing my cheek is not slapping me, even if the movement is exactly the same only slowed down immensely.
But the intent is different.
The sun is not a red giant, though it is a star like red giant stars are.
All stars are in the category of star, regardless of color.
Pluto is no longer considered a planet.
Yes but it’s not for a matter of degrees, but 100% absence of certain qualifications.
Normal blood pressure is not high blood pressure, which has its connotations of health problem.
But all blood pressure higher than normal is considered high regardless of how high.
A whisper is not a scream.
But vocalizations above normal are considered screams regardless of intensity.
Tapping you on the shoulder (using the socially accepted degree of force and in the correct, pretty wide range, situations) is not assault.
Actually, I think it is.
But, then, again, it often does. A gale is different in degree from…other windy situations.
But if it’s a gale, then it doesn’t matter the degree of a gale that is it; it’s still a gale.
A short person is not always a dwarf, due to degree of difference from average height.
But if a person is in the category of dwarf, then it’s not a matter of the degree to which.
Change the frequency of something and it can change category - ultrasound, now a difference color, now its microwave radiation…etc.
But all sounds are sounds and all EMF are EMF. This is the distinction between lesser slavery and greater slavery, but they’re both slavery.
And then you need to demonstrate that those things you are calling slavery are merely differences in degree rather than in kind. I don’t think you’ve done that.
Then the problem is on your end because I have done that. Formerly you believed slavery meant ownership, so perhaps now that I’ve corrected that, maybe the rest will fall into place for you. Slavery is essentially the theft of productivity for one’s own gain and whether 100% of productivity is stolen or something less than 100% doesn’t change the categorization. Either we work together as partners or one of us is slave to the other; I can’t think of a third possibility because either we split the fruits of our labors amicably or we do not.