Intergalactic Summit

I used to find these discussions amusing until it became blatantly clear that everyone has wrapped themselves in so much moral cloth of their own design that there's no hope of anyone seeing the naked truth.

I'll be blunt. Slaves are assets, they are resources, and they have simple, amoral value. We buy and sell them on open markets, and no one gives a **** what their names are or whether they have children, so long as they meet certain low standards of quality. Some of us dress the whole enterprise in the velvet cloth of religion. Others in the soothing silk of dire consequences if they are freed. But really, in the end, it really is all about money.

So please. Please! Stop pretending this is about anything else, all of you.

You so-called freedom fighters just don't get what you're actually doing. Someone earlier warned that a day of reckoning was near. I want you to think real hard for a minute about what that day might actual entail. You want people to stop trading in slaves? What happens to the value of a slave when they lose all utility? Why, they become liabilities of course.

Want to see what will happen the day it's not worth keeping slaves anymore? I promise you, no one is going to be travelling anywhere.

So what Meiyi is suggesting is pretty much the only chance all these billions of... people... have. Offer up some alternative form of value, something that will give people like me an actual incentive to stick all these asses on transports, on our dime, and ship them to the Republic.

I don't care if you don't think that's "fair". It is what it is. Deal with it, or admit that you don't actually care about these people any more than I do.

Shock, horror, its not about scripture, who would have believed it.