On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 13:02:10 -0700, "Kelly St. Clair" <xxxxxx@efn.org>
wrote:
>(But the 3I doesn't allow /slavery/, oh no; so they don't /call/ it
>that. You're free to leave, if you can afford to... the flipside of
>that being, if you could, you wouldn't be there.)
Article VI of the Warrant only prohibits _chattel_ slavery; other forms of
slavery (e.g., as penalty for transgression, debt indenture, peonage,
enserfment, etc.) are not inherently prohibited.
When I wrote that clause, my intention was that there were to be certain
rights that the slave had that were enforceable against the master, even
against the latter's will. I did not define those rights, but I'd have to
say that at a minimum the slave could not be arbitrarily killed, nor could
execution be punshment for crimes less serious than high felonies (e.g.,
murder, treason against the Imperium, crimes that in context create an
inherent risk of death for innocents (e.g., tampering with atmosphere
controls in an enclosed habitat such that the atmosphere becomes less
breathable or laced with poisons). Additionally, while there would be no
prohibition on the children of slaves being themselves slaves from birth,
it would not be permitted to separate a slave child from xir parent prior
to the child attaining some reasonable age of self-responsibility.
None of this was actually specified, of course; to overspecify an answer to
the question 'What is _chattel_ slavery vs. other forms?' would be to tie
the hands of the referee more than I felt was appropriate.
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