Modern human beings like to pretend that slavery is over, as if identical conditions of living no longer apply simply by removing the word “slave” from their legal status. It doesn’t ‘have’ to be this way, but most people don’t have the stomach for the bloodshed and suffering which follow a true worldwide transition away from slavery. Currently, we (USA/western countries) merely outsource it, and we displace other potential workers with the impossibly low wages we offer immigrants (legal and otherwise). Slavery will ‘exist’ until the loopholes by which any man can be made another’s are all closed... and we’ve enough loopholes that the extreme form of it which most USA-living persons so despise for its horrific imagery still continues in many of the countries we source our goods from... merely absent the name.
There’s so many forms... China with its organ harvesting of ‘prisoners’ (Muslims), bangledash with its 14+ hour a day live-in workhouses which may not be left and packed so tightly together all the while that the muscles in their legs are made to atrophy in those perpetually underfed conditions, the fishermen who are simply kidnapped in Indonesia and disappear forever out at sea to work while their illicit masters simply lounge.... sexual slavery is still ever so ‘popular’, the young boys kept by ‘the good guys’ in Afghanistan, enforced labour in North Korean work camps... slavery remains a worldwide phenomenon. Yes, we’ve done a lot in the last hundred and some years to put it behind us (racial slavery in particular we’ve really curbed)... but injustices such as slavery still abound in this modern world of ours.
I’ve gone and built a villain in my story (not present for a long while yet) who absolutely believes in ‘death before submission’ (such as England in sinking slave galleys; better to be dead and free than to live as a slave). A villain off to ‘save’ the world entirely for their own selfish feelings. That’s way more fun than an overpowered MC me-copycat trying to solve the issue... albeit I also would likely be a bloody terror in my own right, depending on just how OP I would be.
If I had the very same abilities as that villain I mentioned: I would pop every perceived slave-owner on the planet like blood balloons until people stopped trying to find loopholes for slavery if only to spare them my slightest suspicion. There’s no excuse in a civilised society where we are all of ‘equal’ worth for one to still say ‘yeah but those people are of lesser import than the people here’. The Puppetmaster isn’t so ‘good’ a person as I, nor as much of a hypocrite as I (either you internet with slave built products, or you don’t have internet)p... and there’s only so much room to choose where my food comes from) however... and as anything man can hold over his fellows is a tyranny: she’s an absolutist on the issue.
Saving people who never asked for help, in a method they would never wish for, and ‘spared’ only because the villain is convinced by another that the blood bags are more useful to her alive than dead.
TLDR: best way to stop slavery is actually to provide extremely violent disincentives for the continuation of the practice. Death, destruction, illegalization if it was otherwise legal.
Alternately? Arm the slaves (see violent disincentives). That stops slavery *real* fast. It also stops gross over-reaches by the government... is what I would have said if people hadn’t been disappointing me personally since the “Patriot Act” went through and is *still* present.
I like your way of thinking.
Wacht auf, Verdammte dieser Erde,
die stets man noch zum Hungern zwingt!
Das Recht wie Glut im Kraterherde
nun mit Macht zum Durchbruch dringt.
Reinen Tisch macht mit dem Bedränger!
Heer der Sklaven, wache auf!
Ein Nichts zu sein, tragt es nicht länger
Alles zu werden, strömt zuhauf!
|: Völker, hört die Signale!
Auf zum letzten Gefecht!
Die Internationale
erkämpft das Menschenrecht. :|
Es rettet uns kein höh'res Wesen,
kein Gott, kein Kaiser noch Tribun
Uns aus dem Elend zu erlösen
können wir nur selber tun!
Leeres Wort: des Armen Rechte,
Leeres Wort: des Reichen Pflicht!
Unmündig nennt man uns und Knechte,
duldet die Schmach nun länger nicht!
Wake up, wretched of this Earth
Who are constantly forced to hunger!
Justice, like embers in the crater's hearth
Now with power pushes to the breakthrough!
Clear out the oppressors!
Army of slaves, awaken!
Being a nothing is no longer tolerable
To become everything is rising up...
Refrain
|: Nations (peoples) hear the signal!
On to the last fight!
The Internationale
Fights for human right(s)! :|
No higher power will save us,
No
God, no
Caesar, no
tribune.
To redeem us out of misery,
Only we ourselves can do!
Empty words: "the rights of the poor"!
Empty words: "the duties of the rich"!
They call us immature and only servants,
Tolerate the humiliation no longer!