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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JackGiantkiller" data-source="post: 1917987" data-attributes="member: 5080">In a great many historical cultures, slavery was only practiced on criminals or prisoners of war, as an alternative to execution or lifetime imprisonment. Slavery in this case is more analagous to a life sentence of hard labor. But those involved are still bought and sold, making it slavery.The aforementioned Mamluks had lives of relative luxury, lives that in most cases were far better than their lives would otherwise have been. I fail to see this as oppression.caveat: I believe very strongly in freedom, free will, etc. As a modern person, I believe slavery of any sort is evil. This has nothing to do with my arguments re: the rules and a most often quasi-medieval mindset in D&D. It also has little to do with the definition of oppression, or the fact that what one person sees as just, another sees as unjust. As someone who might (or might not be characterized as Chaotic, I think that execution is actually both more humane and more effective in crime prevention than lifetime imprisonment, because freedom, to me, is more precious than life. This need not apply to my game worlds.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />"Give me liberty, or give me death."</blockquote>