-Mysmarri- Uh, I'd like to buy like a few slaves, just to free them. I don't like the idea of slavery, so offer me something between a 2k voxel and a 10k one. You still get the money, so, don't worry. Right? ... Maybe this isn't such a good idea. ... Just give me offers, kay?
It does remove slaves from the market, though. Your argument might be legitimate, but the only other way to free these slaves would be some type of crusade, which would deeply split the galaxy, especially if it were carried out by a larger faction. It's a complex issue, where a lot needs to be considered. -Corvus
-Mysmarri- But... I can't stand the idea of it. Ohh, I'll just... Stop it, Sen guy, this isn't an auction! ... I'm just buying a few slaves. It won't really affect much, but it'll mean everything to the slaves.
If there is no money in slaving, slavers wont have a reason to enslave people. You pay them, you are enabling them to continue enslaving people.
-Mysmarri- Look you guys, just stop! I want to buy slaves, so I will! This arguing crap always happens on every single darn Starnet post. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm still accepting offers. Text me, Corvy.
((Vecks)) With all due respect... This is not smart, just stop now. Where do you think your money is going...? You save one slave with a huge pile of voxels, then they use your cash to arm themselves to the teeth. Your money will become the ship-to-surface missile that they threaten choose to threaten a small settlement with. You free one person, then they laugh like bandits all the way to the bank, with a cargo-hold full of A HUNDRED MORE. Sure, it'll mean a lot to that one slave... It'll mean a lot MORE to everyone they use your cash to capture. You don't deter a business or idiocy by making it profitable. Your offer not only encourages the work of slavers, but also encourages more of them to pop up. Seriously, we had to install FRICKING BLAST DOORS on our bar because of these idiots. I have zero patience for the amateurs you're tossin' pix. If I end up getting shot by one of the guns that you happen to finance with this little venture, I won't be happy. At all.
W... Well, that wasn't respectful! Just... Let's see what you wanna do, then, go on and talk all you want to the people buying the slaves and actually using them for labor.
(Aissa) Speaking as someone who was picked up and stuffed in a cell by some skeevy fuck a couple days ago... If I find that even part of that horseshit was funded by some misguided do-gooder, I am going to be very displeased. Very displeased indeed. Saving one individual slave might give you some warm fuzzies, but, like he said, you're basically paying for the trade to keep going. That's pretty selfish. Incidentally, Vecks, I just realized I've been spelling your name wrong this entire time. Oop. - a
Hey, I tried. Also, who said anything about talking? Talkin' about how slave-buyers suck doesn't make you payin' slavers look any better, for anyone involved. My advice, if you wanna help slaves? Buy guns. Give them to your friends, sneak them in to the slaves, pass them off to your local Big Damn Heroes... But don't buy them for the slavers. @A: No big. I'm sure it happens more than I think. -Vecks
Look, it's either you get bought by an actual client who'd work you to death, very probably die trying to escape, or get bought by me. It's just ONE slave, okay? Just one! I am STILL taking offers.
((Pan)) You are more or less saying "Kidnap someone and sell them to me for 10k voxels!". If you want to free a slave, at least instead of asking for a sale, wait until someone offers a slave, then buy one. Another thing you did not think of; I can simply ask a friend of mine to act like a slave, "sell" him to you, and split the 10k voxels with said person.
