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Bingo. Voluntary action is the most important ingredient in ANY human interaction, whether it's sex (consent is key), economics (two people choosing to do business with each other), or government (ie, formed by the consent of the people).
That said, in a medieval fantasy world without modern ethics, the best some people could hope for is a kind master. I'm not sure what kind of rules keep someone from freeing a slave once acquired, though. I know that in one manga/LN I read, the demi-humans basically had no rights at all. Unless they were registered as a slave (and thus considered property) they could be captured and enslaved, or even raped and killed, at will. So keeping them as slaves offered them a measure of protection under the law that they wouldn't otherwise have.
Bingo. Voluntary action is the most important ingredient in ANY human interaction, whether it's sex (consent is key), economics (two people choosing to do business with each other), or government (ie, formed by the consent of the people).
That said, in a medieval fantasy world without modern ethics, the best some people could hope for is a kind master. I'm not sure what kind of rules keep someone from freeing a slave once acquired, though. I know that in one manga/LN I read, the demi-humans basically had no rights at all. Unless they were registered as a slave (and thus considered property) they could be captured and enslaved, or even raped and killed, at will. So keeping them as slaves offered them a measure of protection under the law that they wouldn't otherwise have.