They could have just worked for the prison system, then they’d get a regular paycheck to enforce slavery.

I think there’s a bad dragon box set for just this fantasy.

Haven’t you heard? Autocracy is all the rage these days. Just where have you been, darling?

Check out the movie In The Heart of the Sea. Got moderate reviews, but you might find something about it you enjoy.

Melville opens his epic sea faring tale by stating people are inexplicably drawn to the sea. I think it is due to one of the most painful, drawn out, and reoccuring emotion: regret.

If rights can be revoked, then they were never rights, only a privilege.

Not everybody, according to some of the comments in this very post.

You have more in common with those soldiers than you do with the warpigs pulling the strings that led them to their deaths.

“Hey, let’s go eat the rich, soldier!”

-Karlach from my daydreams