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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starglim" data-source="post: 1915551" data-attributes="member: 17011">Whether slavery is legal has nothing to do with whether it's good or evil (except that illegal slavery is more likely to require evil methods to obtain slaves and keep them in line).In some societies, criminals and captured enemies were enslaved, as an alternative to being horribly killed. In the past and today, members of some societies chose to take out loans and work off the debt in more or less slave conditions, or to sell to richer people surplus children who they could not support. Other societies had a social class of workers bonded by custom to their work and not permitted to take part in government, whose name we translate today as "slaves", when we might use "serfs" for much worse conditions in a different society.If you want to say that these arrangements were evil, as opposed to Lawful Neutral, then you should support that with argument, rather than assume it. The American system of slavery was based on numerous evil practices and cannot be justified, but beyond civics classes in primary school, it's not so clear that that can be extended to every slave system throughout history.</blockquote>