Too stupid to know what the word "illegal" means, apparently. If any people of any kind are being sold in any capacity and no one is in any danger of facing repercussions then slavery isn’t really illegal.
[People seeing Grisha as less than human or fearing them isn’t actually an excuse. It’s not even that he doesn’t sympathize with them being marginalized. He does, in fact. It’s Aleksander's attitude that this is somehow understandable and acceptable as long as it gives him an excuse to feel like a martyr that’s a problem.]
If you’re only safe as long as you’re useful, then you’re not really safe. I’m curious, are you so in love with the smell of bullshit that you’re willing to spout anyone’s, whether it’s your own or your tsar’s?
[Because that’s what it’s starting to feel like.]
Slavery is slavery. Just because it doesn’t meet your standards of cruelty or it's not aimed at the people you personally advocate for doesn’t make it less true.
[And he pointedly doesn’t answer the last question because if there’s anyone he wants to protect Aleksander is literally the last person he wants to know about it.]
no subject
[People seeing Grisha as less than human or fearing them isn’t actually an excuse. It’s not even that he doesn’t sympathize with them being marginalized. He does, in fact. It’s Aleksander's attitude that this is somehow understandable and acceptable as long as it gives him an excuse to feel like a martyr that’s a problem.]
If you’re only safe as long as you’re useful, then you’re not really safe. I’m curious, are you so in love with the smell of bullshit that you’re willing to spout anyone’s, whether it’s your own or your tsar’s?
[Because that’s what it’s starting to feel like.]
Slavery is slavery. Just because it doesn’t meet your standards of cruelty or it's not aimed at the people you personally advocate for doesn’t make it less true.
[And he pointedly doesn’t answer the last question because if there’s anyone he wants to protect Aleksander is literally the last person he wants to know about it.]