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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1345434" data-attributes="member: 6929">I see three perspectives on the 'is this slavery' question (reasoning that everything else in this thread has been said better).- Dominance for us: club the baby seal and take its pelt; the seals lose.- Dominance for them: feed and medicate the cows, propagate their population over the entire planet, and only at the end kill and eat them; the cows win.- Dominance by consent: speed limits on the roads; it's very hard to argue that that's a cruel and unusual stricture. We win.Slavery is what I'd call the 'for us' option, wherein the dominated party is used with no benefits to it. But if you're talking about harnessed elementals... I'm not sure where that fits in. A fire elemental used to stoke a boiler would be perfectly happy heating things up, maybe setting fire to huge heaps of coal; that's its purpose. A fire elemental used to dry up a lake would be utterly miserable.See where I'm coming from here?</blockquote>