Not-Sew-Wicked Stepmom - Vol. 3 Ch. 112

[MangaDex]

 

[User1569]

Finally, a reincarnated character is willing to use their position to end slavery/human trafficking. It's very refreshing after reading so many stories where the inhumanities of humans owning humans are clearly shown in the first episode/chapter but nothing happens in the series to adress it and it's something that just exists in the background. Rising of Shield Hero comes to mind.

Why introduce slavery to a story if there isn't important to the plot? First of all, it's just bad writing. Basic Chekov's gun. They introduce slavery and show it as a terrible thing and then it's just allowed to exist in the background. Second of all, oftentimes it's a fetish thing. Either the slave is completely obedient by some kind of spell or because the freed slave is just so grateful they devote everything to their new master.

And I'm not saying that every story set in a Europe inspired fantasy setting needs to talk about how slavery was an evil thing, but at the very least human trafficking and slavery shouldn't be used as cheap tropes

Anyway, I hope this means that they team upnwith other races against Morka and the other human supremecist kingdoms

 

[Manchura]

Finally, a reincarnated character is willing to use their position to end slavery/human trafficking. It's very refreshing after reading so many stories where the inhumanities of humans owning humans are clearly shown in the first episode/chapter but nothing happens in the series to adress it and it's something that just exists in the background. Rising of Shield Hero comes to mind.

Why introduce slavery to a story if there isn't important to the plot? First of all, it's just bad writing. Basic Chekov's gun. They introduce slavery and show it as a terrible thing and then it's just allowed to exist in the background. Second of all, oftentimes it's a fetish thing. Either the slave is completely obedient by some kind of spell or because the freed slave is just so grateful they devote everything to their new master.

And I'm not saying that every story set in a Europe inspired fantasy setting needs to talk about how slavery was an evil thing, but at the very least human trafficking and slavery shouldn't be used as cheap tropes

Anyway, I hope this means that they team upnwith other races against Morka and the other human supremecist kingdoms

this isn't even slavery, as mirror boy said, it's just orientalism...

not something as basic to animal nature as slavery is, pretty much all social sedentary animals practice it and only the advent of the pre-frontal and frontal cortex gave humans a chance to debate it. But it's usage was so ubiquitously beneficial to making life easier it was maintained for thousands of years and is STILL maintained in parts of the world that suffer lower than necessary population levels to overturn such a system

 

[User1569]

this isn't even slavery, as mirror boy said, it's just orientalism...

not something as basic to animal nature as slavery is, pretty much all social sedentary animals practice it and only the advent of the pre-frontal and frontal cortex gave humans a chance to debate it. But it's usage was so ubiquitously beneficial to making life easier it was maintained for thousands of years and is STILL maintained in parts of the world that suffer lower than necessary population levels to overturn such a system

It's definitely Orientalism, but it's also definitely human trafficking since they're being used as products in the black market. It's important to consider that slavery is broader than what's often discussed online. The form most similiar to the illegal mermaid trade is probably the sex trafficking of captured women in Medieval China

Slavery is great for the ruling class, but as a general rule, anything that limits social mobility is a detriment for human progress. A lack of social mobility means that a society isn't meritocratic. People aren't in the places they are because they've earned it but because it's the place they were born into. This means those in power aren't always fit to be in power, and likewise, those in servitude might possess talent that will be wasted because of their position. Slavery is cannibalistic in this way. It doesn't really drive humanity as a whole foward, instead it benifits certain levels of humanity that are already living pretty comfortably

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There's a reason why civilizations that reach a certain population get rid of it