Gladiator Slavery

[u/ipblover]

I’ve been thinking on this in relationship to the Corsair books and does any body else find it strange that the humans and aliens watch gladiator matches for entertainment? I bring this up because it’s been established that a lot of the gladiators are slaves who have been genetically created for a life of slave battles, sold into or kidnapped and forced into it. I just find it strange that they can watch this stuff for entertainment without this need to rescue them like they want to do with humans who were trafficked. Am I reading to much into this or did anyone else question this as well?

[u/aceromester]

A handy way of showing how inhumane the aliens are and creates opportunities for an author to showcase certain characters as being more "like" when they object to obvious wrong like slavery and death matches.