From:	Ed Matuskey <MATUSKEY@***.EDU>
Subject:	Slavery
Date:	Mon, 12 Apr 1993 14:26:03 -0700

I was at work yesterday, not really thinking about much, when this really
off-the wall, evil, guarunteed to get peoples' dander up idea came to me.
I don't know why I think of stuff like this, I should be stopped, but since
no one has done it yet, here goes:

All mages/shamans who summon spirits/elementals are slavers.
Spirits/elementals are intelligent beings, capable of independent thought,
and are not simply extrusions of the conjurer's personality.
Why can I say this? Free spirits. When a spirit gets the chance to free
itself, it takes it. After that, it is an independent entity. Even if the
mage who called it is killed (like by an escaping spirit), the entity lives
on.
I can see the start of a new policlub, working towards the freeing of spirits
already summoned, and leaving the spirits still in their homeland alone, not
allowing mages to ship them to the New World for their own purposes.
If you see the similarities between mages & spirits, and whites & blacks from
colonial times, you can see what I mean.
Commments? Flames? Thwaps? All will be listened to. If this topic has
already been talked about to death, and I missed it, sorry.
-Ed
-Highlander