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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fieari" data-source="post: 1918440" data-attributes="member: 16221">Indentured servitude has been mentioned a few times, and I'd love to hear a few more comments in that direction.  In the case of Indentured Service, Person A wants a very expensive X from Person B, and in exchange for X agrees to work for Y years in order to pay the debt.  During this time, Person A is not allowed to quit, seek employment elsewhere, and in these respects resembles a slave.  But it was done willingly, and it was done with a fair exchange in mind.I would probably classify this as Nuetral... as I would judge most commerce.  Just giving something away for free would be Good.  Indeed, in this case, I would call Person A running away and breaking the contract an Evil act (or at the very least, Chaotic, but probably CE in its entirety) as it would be an example of downright theft.  Not theft of you, yourself... but theft of the item X that was recieved in the first place, and is now going unpaid.In some societies, the above would be called Slavery.  In this example, if you called this slavery (a rose by any other name...) it would not be evil just because it was CALLED slavery.Would those of you claiming all slavery is evil by definition agree with me here?  It's an interesting topic...</blockquote>