Talk:Brain Unglaus/@comment-103.253.89.12-20180412042607/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180709164717

Brain also lives in a society where treating women like that is perfectly normal.

Even when they outlawed outright slavery, it is still taken as a commonplace that a woman might sell herself into a situation like that, and it wouldn't be investigated carefully whether she ever actually agreed to it unless all the 'legitimate businessmen' involved were 'killed in self-defense' by someone with a connection to the palace.

Of course, the reasons he personally didn't make use of the captives don't appear to be anything particularly noble. But the fact that he didn't still puts him morally on the same level as pretty much anyone else in the Re-Estize Kingdom who isn't actively involved in shutting down basically identical practices despite not indulging in it themselves.