You're beginning to sound suspiciously like someone else on this forum who only last week was accusing some of being slavery fetishists just because they didn't happen to agree with that persons arguments or lack of. Although in that persons case the arguments they were having existed between their left and right ears and were in no way a reflection of what others were saying to them.
Just out of curiosity what's your views on drugs and selling of weapons to star systems in various states of conflict of have you not covered that sort of conduct in your real life work place. Can we look forward to a thread from your some time next week saying drugs are bad and should be removed from the game?
No, I'm okay with drug dealing, because the user needs to consent to its use. Yes, drug use kills people, and the crimes associated with it kill people, but a person has the freedom to choose to use or not use drugs in the first place. FWIW, I don't trade in illegal stuff in the game. Although I did once accidentally bring some liquor to a religious system, and got stuck in the mail slot trying to get out. Oops.
Whoever the person is to whom you refer, I'm not them nor am I aware of their perspectives.
Here's the crux of the point to me, which I already made several times and why I said I was done with this thread, but out of respect for your question, I'll try to restate as briefly as possible.
Slavery is a horrifying practice that undermines the very fundamentals of human natural rights, and it has been reduced to a cold and abstract concept without respect to the millions of people who are still living with the cultural hangover of slavery today, then implemented as a profitable game mechanic in a game whose core value proposition is providing a simulated experience as the commander of a space ship intended to be used for trading, combat, and exploration. I find that disturbing and wrong, and only now got the motivation to finally state my perspective despite the fact that I figured that I was walking into a den of conflict, willful misunderstanding, and name-calling. The forum did not disappoint in this regard.
So I guess this is my question back to you: is the presence of active slave trading in Elite so important that its removal considerably diminishes the value that Elite provides to you as a consumer of space flight simulators such that you would quit if they took it out? Sub-question: If so, if the lore were able to remain intact, but Frontier managed to mount some sort of long term and engaging CG campaign that could potentially remove the practice from the game entirely while treating the issue with the gravitas it deserves, would you then also quit?
