@MerriLee3s you don't sound like you get the idea of what she's telling you.
You don't have to like the promp under which this webtoon/novel was written, disagreeing with it is okay.
"It just doesn't make sense for ANYONE to prefer being a possession to being a noble." It does when you think outside of your times and actual situation: maybe
NOW it doesn't make sense, but if in the 1600's your master treated you well enough that you didn't have to worry about anything else but the work you did in their house, freedom would be the last thing in your mind. Between being "free" and dying on the streets or being a slave and having enough to eat and a roof over your head, I think the choice is very clear.
"I disagree with the using of Chloe's situation and status as a comparison tool to the Grand Duke's." I don't: comparing the root of the choices you make to the root of the choices others make is a healthy way of introspection; you get to understand better why you do the things you do in a deeper level.
"And as a characteristic that draws him to Chloe." I don't really care, but this is subjective so it doesn't matter. Everyone has their own opinions, so variety is a given in everything.
"It seems unnecessary and naïve of the bloody and cruel reality of slavery in all contexts." No, it's not. We were shown that Chloe didn't suffer being a slave, so just because other people in other cultural contexts suffered she can't enjoy her life as a slave? The "reality of slavery" wasn't "bloody and cruel" in every context, there were cultures where being a slave wasn't that bad nor hard. Just because you were taught something about it doesn't mean that it's always the same everywhere else. From where I come from people eat dinner at 11pm and that's my reality and maybe of the country as a whole, but it doesn't mean that everyone else in the world does the same.
I agree that slavery as a topic is a sensitive one in some occidental countries and won't be liked by many people, but what was experienced in
SOME countries during slavery doesn't mean that was the only kind that existed, there where some places where it was different; Korea as an example (taking
@Rhodolite words as a native korean into account). And even then
WE don't know and can never know because
WE don't live in those times.
You are not being understanding of what
@Rhodolite told you nor what the cultural background of the webcomic is when you still try to push your idea that "no matter what context or place: slavery was/is always wrong".