2013-01-12, 09:11 | Link #761 | |
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Makes sense and she didn't seem morally opposed to it the way hero did when he saw the girls. I am sure the Demon Queen is looking at the bigger picture. Can you get more out of hired workers than you can for serfs? I am also not sure if you need the same level of security & fixed costs for serfs as you do for slaves?
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2013-01-12, 09:59 | Link #764 | ||
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Just being able to read and write will make it harder for claims that they are serfs stick as those skills were not taught to the lower classes and made rather high income jobs available to them, Little Sis Maid wasn't kidding about being able to be rich by learning it. Given thier lord burnt down thier home with thier sisters still inside in front of them and left them in the cold with only the clothing on thier back, I think anything is a step up for them. Quote:
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2013-01-12, 10:50 | Link #766 | |
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I'm sure she'd like to help every person in need that she could. Pragmatically, she's trying to save the world (two worlds, really), and hiding fleeing serfs risks her reputation, and thus her chances of success in this stage of her work.
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2013-01-12, 11:03 | Link #767 | |
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Though it's a same they cut the useless meat joke that was one of my favorite parts. Also let us not forget that "no one in the world dislikes maids"
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You do not quite appreciate how widely the English term "slave" is used if you think a serf who must work for his lord in certain capacities in an assigned land, who is not free to leave the assigned land, and who can be bought and sold with the assigned land is better--legally or practically--than slave of any class. Quote:
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1. Before the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850: During this period, there is no duty to aid the return of escaped slaves. Slavery was not allowed in the free states. A slave who escaped to a free state is a free man, both legally and practically, so long as he does not return to a slave state--voluntary or as a victim of successful kidnap. Actually, because the free state's law treats him as a free man, he has protection against kidnapping. 2. After the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850: During this period, there is a duty to aid the return of escaped slaves. A slave residing in the free states remains only at freedom so long as his protectors are willing and able to protect him. This is why escape attempts are directly more toward getting slaves to Canada and Mexico, where the escaped slave becomes a free man by law.
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On another note their lord did not "treat them well" at all hence why they ran away. Their lord was I would venture to guess not going to give them their freedom. Quote:
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If they were forced it was akin to slavery and basically kidnapping.
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2013-01-12, 16:01 | Link #773 | |
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Same for me. IMO compressing all those narrative into just 12 episodes will be problematic at best. Just look at how Zetman and Code Breakers have become. I'd rather have them take the "unfinished story" approach like Spice and Wolf than rushing the plot.
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2013-01-12, 16:06 | Link #774 |
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Something that was cut in the Anime is that the outfit the Demon Lord was wareing was not picked out by her but forced on her by Head Maid as "something befiting the meeting of the Demon Lord and Hero (It is a bit more vampish in the manga and novel), she prefers to dress more plain and modest. So while the demon king trying wooing the hero bit is there Demon Lord isn't the one tring to invoke it.
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2013-01-12, 16:09 | Link #775 |
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10 minutes into episode 1, I'm fairly impressed how this story is shaping. To be honest, I thought I was going to indulge into a fanservicy/harem series with little or no emphasis on a plot. Compared to the heroine, the hero is sounding like a frying pan. Hoping the next 10 min will allow the hero to find some redemption.
Onward with episode 1.......
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The involuntary part of involuntary servitude (of any kind) refers to methods of getting out of the status, not necessarily of getting into the status. It is common for a person to sell himself into slavery for debt relief--or pledge himself as security for a loan. This is the classification for the Roman nexum. You see that is is essentially an indentured servant.
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2013-01-12, 16:51 | Link #779 |
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I don't know. I also don't care who's winning, but both of you, please stop it. Ever since the first episode, I come into this thread looking for discussion and I see long back-and-forth arguments, and it's a real turn-off. Please, everyone, just stop.
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2013-01-12, 17:06 | Link #780 | |
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Its not even the main focus of the series and is the social class system of that fiction world. Why does it matter so much? There are many things we can discuss, please put efforts into a quality discussion. |
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