Pre-reading answer

Wow Galen, very impressive! Good job, you get another sticker. :)
Here's my pre-reading answer for "Can a slave live a dignified and honorable life?"

Yes, I believe that a slave can live a dignified and honorable life. But I believe the bigger and more important question to be, “Can the master live a dignified and honorable life?” Yes, I am sure that the master is considered to be dignified, in some cases, but honorable? How can anyone live an honorable life when they are smothering another’s? The slave has no rights, no freedom whatsoever. It lives to serve the master.
With that last line in mind, you would assume that the slave does not live a very dignified and honorable life; rather, you would think that it leads quite a wretched and meaningless one. But I disagree. Compared to the master, a master who is so obsessed with wealth that he is willing to diminish another’s life in the process, the slave’s life is far more dignified and honorable. The slave will have to overcome so many more hurtles and hardships in his/her lifetime. Hurtles that the master, sitting in his too-big house, surrounded by luxuries, cannot even begin to contemplate. The master’s spirit, from a lack of hardships, will grow weak. But the slave’s spirit, having been confronted with those hurtles, and then having to overcome them, will grow strong.
This is why I believe a slave can live a dignified and honorable life. In comparison with the master’s, the slave’s life I certainly view as superior.