Isn't it kinda fucked in concept, beating someone in a single battle and claiming them as your property for the rest of their lives?

Harkaius said:

Isn't it kinda fucked in concept, beating someone in a single battle and claiming them as your property for the rest of their lives?

Tell that to 14th century knights.
Before the code of chivalry gets around, defeated knights in (private) duels often get stripped from everything they own and become serfs of the winning knights. After that they're mainly exchanged for ransom.

Rathurue said:

Tell that to 14th century knights.
Before the code of chivalry gets around, defeated knights in (private) duels often get stripped from everything they own and become serfs of the winning knights. After that they're mainly exchanged for ransom.

Man, we sure loved forcing eternal servitude upon others, especially back then didn't we?

Harkaius said:

Man, we sure loved forcing eternal servitude upon others, especially back then didn't we?

glances at most nation's law about labor, especially Japan's
Why you are talking it as past sense?

I mean...yeah...there are things to work on...(Though, to answer your question, even if it's rhetorical, people tend to sweep bigger issues under the rug via incorrect statements as to make the world around them seem more bearable and avoid lengthier discussions that are likely to lead to nowhere, and I didn't want to start the whole what's right and what's wrong discussion on a public forum, so perhaps I could have let my fingers hang complacent and unmoving, though, here we are, this run on sentence growing across the page like black mold stretching along the vein of a shower curtain...have a wonderful day to you who read all this!)