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Bytyan:
http://www1.assumption.edu/users/lknoles/douglassproslaveryargs.html
Detoxicated, read the exert from William greyson's "The hireling and the slave". Your argument walks a dangerous line.
stabbymcstabstab:
Well, the differnece between slavery and using Them as cheap labor is if they have something to gain. First generation of them would be little more then babies your taking care of and teachinhg with little more then food and shelter being given, 2nd would likly be more like children learning skills for life and earning a few coins and trinkets here and there, and 3rd would be when they are adults, Able to carry their weight by Building, Defending, and Supplying the fortress and getting paid like any other dorf or Non dorf in the fort.
Splint:
It is true both parties have things to gain from such an arrangment. The animal tribes can gain a stable home and food supply, the dwarves gain the extra muscle and an overland fighting force who can cross the sunlit ground more quickly than a vomit encrusted dorf.
NW_Kohaku:
--- Quote from: Bytyan on March 26, 2012, 06:13:58 pm ---http://www1.assumption.edu/users/lknoles/douglassproslaveryargs.html
Detoxicated, read the exert from William greyson's "The hireling and the slave". Your argument walks a dangerous line.
--- End quote ---
We've had this sort of thread and this sort of argument before...
The thing is, when there is "racism" in DF against a goblin as being a little sociopath, it's because they literally are hard-wired to enjoy hurting other people. A troglodyte really is a slow learner. You can tell, because there's a [SLOW_LEARNER] token in its creature raws.
Likewise, it's not really racism to say that a modded caste of dwarves that have stone skin and breath fire might be better suited to front-line combat duty, while the smaller, squishier mushroom guys who have a magical bonus to farming might be better off left on the farm.
Splint:
So trogs are a little slow..... No reason not to give them food, a home where spiders don't want to kill them and make them haul junk in exchange.
I'd honestly like to have animalman auxilliaries to fight on the surface while dwarves fought threats that got past them/come from the caverns....
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