Intergalactic Summit

They certainly do. All freed slaves are welcome. Because, to the wall with refugee camps bursting their banks! To the winds with rampant crime and plague among the overcrowded, underfed liberated once they are in the walls of the Republic.

After all, the Republics infrastructure won't support you when she gave you your freedom? Your freedom to live, so long as you conform to their Tribal ideals and don't practice any religion that they cannot tolerate. Your freedom to be abused by the criminal exploiters that thrive on making recruits out of freshly transported slaves and also your freedom to refuse and die of malnutrition or exposure.

No, damnation. Damnation is all you offer this slave, Kraiklyn; not only would you damn this slave for eternity once his body has perished, you would damn him in physical life to a living that no man should have to endure. You do not require faith to appreciate this, pup. Look me in the eyes and say that with all that is transpiring around you that you can truly say that the Republic is the best answer for anybody.

Please, I beseech you, reach deep within yourself and find me an answer. Internalize it if you lack the gall to share it with me, but seek out your honest conclusions all the same. I await you with bated breath.

AND bringing things back on topic....

I notice nobody from PIE put their hand up to take the slave, so I was just going to contract him to a random PIE member.... but I couldn't create the contract because slaves are apparently illegal in some areas (weird, I know)... so I'll just randomly try and grab one of you folks sometime soon when I get a chance.

The only thing it's showing is the efficiency of Republic's propaganda machine.
But you know, it would be kind of hypocritical of me to complain, since they usually come to us next, after realizing 'freedom' doesn't feed hungry mouths.





You know, halfway through your little speech, I lost track of whether you were talking about the Empire or the Republic. Look yourself a bit closer in the mirror, Republican; you might be more similar to that which you hate than you'd like to admit.

Kidnapped, yes that is how you obtained those slaves. Liberated or released, or free by their own means, but definitely not kidnapped. You seem so desperate for sympathy. You talk nice and wear shiny jewels but its slaves doing your work for you. Have bothered checking how long the average slave lives in those mines where they get you your shiny stuff?
I see a lot of empty words and not a lot of action, you claim so much yet... nothing.
Repeating your lies over and over won't change the reality. I say drugging and beating, you say saving his soul.
I will never accept your 'answer'

I won't waste further words on you, I hope the lady will do what is best for the man or woman for the human she found. Because that is what a slave is a person. Not yours to own and his soul is not yours to save.

I volunteer to take in this individual as well, I can provide him with every oppertunity to a free life, or better ask him/her what he/she prefers. I can provide for transport as well.

A lost little girl. I wonder, I wonder very much whether you shall ever find a home.

Would he like to work on my ship or something? It's okay I've done like baby sitting before I'd like totally cool for like keeping him company and stuff if he doesn't speak the language my other crew guys do. And like, he'd get like a salary and stuff and I carry like, up to 875,000,000 cans of Quafe on a trip!

Slaves don't get Quafe because there are some cruelties even the Amarr aren't reprehensible enough to stoop to.

((Doublepost, ignonre))

You can only preach the propaganda you've been raised on about the Empire. You know nothing about what slavery in the Empire is really like.

Slaves are not killed on a whim. The murder of a slave is never an appropriate punishment except in the most serious of circumstances, such as when that slave murders his lord. To kill a slave who has not converted is to damn their soul, which is opposite of the goals of the institution.

Slaves are beaten. As are commoners, holders, and any other Imperial citizen who has committed a crime. Unlike the other empires, in Amarr physical force is a respected and valid punishment for crimes, for both slaves and non slaves. Feeling pain is important for teaching someone not to commit sin and crime again, because it teaches them, like putting one's hand in a fire or cutting one's finger on a knife, that wrong actions have painful consequences and so should be avoided.

Most slaves are not illiterate. We are given education, principally spiritual education but also other education as is fitting for our occupations. Being literate is required for much of that. The goal of slavery is to educate slaves.

Most slaves are not drugged, not anymore. Vitoc was an improper tool, too quickly relied upon by Holders who been tempted to sloth, but now it is being phased out in favor of more traditional methods. In contrast, the Republic is infested with drugs and doesn't even prosecute them except in their highest security systems.

The Amarr don't disregard life. They regard life, and the soul, higher than anyone else in the cluster.

You've been brainwashed by Republic propaganda. Those of us who have actually been slaves know how we were treated by our lords. And the truth is that the majority of released slaves choose to stay in the Empire, because it's our real home. The only ones that go to the Republic are the most stubborn and irredeemable of us, so consumed by their pride that they would rather sin and force their masters to treat them harshly than to ever submit. The trauma they have endured was brought on themselves, by their own actions.

Miss Ji-Young giving that slave back to the Empire is a better fate for that slave than to release him to the Republic.