Book I'm reading now has a slavery component and it made me think about how this is a regular theme in the genre. The implications I'm reading is that there's some sort of predisposition in even alien cultures to have forms of slavery. As in highly advanced civilizations, superior to our own would still succumb to the temptation of free labor at the expense of anothers freedoms.

It's always interesting how it's handled and there's obviously a parallel in how it's treated and some form of appologist attitude toward our own history of slavery. Like see even in the future out in space it would have happened and perhaps we handled it better than even aliens would.

It's a strange thing. not any reflection of the book I'm reading mind you. I think their handling of it is great and it makes sense in the context, but the general topic raises an eyebrow for me.

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