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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1916425" data-attributes="member: 24969">I think that it is more complicated than simply is it good or evil. For that matter, slavery could mean many different things under varying conditions. Serfdom, indentured servitude, and sometimes marriage all counted as slavery in my book. The names may have changed, and sometimes they were changed after the fact, but the effect was the same. If any oppresion is evil, then you're going to have a strong case that any strongly lawful society is evil. If oppresision is always evil then laws are also inherently evil if not consentually agreed to and upheld by force. Then you get into other arguements, especially economic ones. If the rich who control the resources, means of productions, and distribution use that to keep wages low (sometimes lower than the cost of upkeep on a slave) so that there is no other option for the poor, isn't that oppresion and slavery?I think that whether slavery is evil or not would greatly depend on the meaning of the term in that particular society as well as the rights and privleges of the slave and owner. The reasons for slavery are usually economic and there are often rules as to how the master is supposed to treat the slave. I think you're going to end up with a wide variety of slaveries and what alignment that type of slavery is will depend upon the society or particular master.Could the lawful good own slaves? It could be part of a lawful society and the master could treat them as a good person would. Freeing them might not be an option due to the laws of the land or other factors. Suppose such a person is given mastership over previously evil humanoids or other creatures inorder to preserve their lives but make sure they commit no evil?</blockquote>

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