# A Solution to the Generational Slavery Question

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**Created:** [September 10, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-solution-to-the-generational-slavery-question/23301 "2017-09-10T09:13:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 11, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/a-solution-to-the-generational-slavery-question/23301/37 "2017-09-11T16:29:40Z")

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> [@Diana\_Kim](#):
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> Except I never said that enslaved Matari are not Matari,

No, you said the matter of enslaved Matari within the Empire was a matter of Amarr internal policy that we should keep our nose out of. Those people are ours. They belong with _us_. You say you had just cause retaking Caldari Prime because it was _your_ world. We feel we have just cause retaking our people because they are _our people_.

If you cannot acknowledge the parallels, then the truth of your argument becomes ‘it was ok that we took Caldari Prime _because we could_’, which is an inherently savage position. For the sake of clarity, that would be ‘savage’ in the ‘bestial and uncivilized’ sense. Is that your position, Diana? ‘It was ok for us to retake Caldari Prime because we’re a bunch of violent, bloody-minded animals’? I don’t think it is. I think you believe that Heth and the Caldari State moved on Caldari Prime because it was the _right_ thing to do, because the occupation of Caldari Prime was an open wound the Federation was continuing to inflict upon the Caldari People, and because retaking the homeworld was necessary and proper and _Just_.

Our people did not choose to be there, they were kidnapped—a crime. And as you’ve heard directly from Lt. Kernher, the Amarr consider crime—and sin—to pass from generation to generation. Which means the beliefs of the _Amarr themselves_ hold that the current generation is accountable for the offenses of their ancestors, and should receive justice. Their entire rationale for continuing to hold slaves all but _demands_ bloody retribution **by their own standards**.

Liberating our people is the right thing to do. The continued enslavement of our Matari kin is an open wound the Amarr continue to inflict upon the Matari people. Ending that enslavement by _whatever_ means is necessary, and proper, and it is Justice. No less Justice than the Amarr themselves proclaim they deserve.

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