Point/Counterpoint: What Are Gentiles For?

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, head of the Shas' party's Council of Torah Sages, offers one idea:

"Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel," he said in his weekly Saturday night sermon on the laws regarding the actions non-Jews are permitted to perform on Shabbat.

As a counterpoint, I offer John Kay of Steppenwolf who maintains that he was born to be wild:

Apparently when Kay was a baby he was part of the evacuation of East Prussia.