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Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. You don't ask why a plague spreads or a field burns. Don't ask why I fight.
Eh. It depends. I'm pretty sure some people whose great grandaddies were hauled off in chains are unable to enjoy a historical fiction because historically a massive fucking chunk of cultures thought the idea of slavery was amazing, and there'll be at least some of that in the background of almost every historical piece that goes on, and, let's be honest, most of the people who'd be living in that area wouldn't think about slavery at all.
Truth be told, I'd find it hard not to laugh at a Victorian era MC whose author thought an easy way to make him relatable or likeable was to have him be appalled at the thought of kids sweeping chimneys.
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I mean, the Victorians passed significant legislation aimed specifically at getting kids out of lethal jobs and into compulsory schooling instead, so it's hardly like there was a total lack of people who preferred children not to go up the stacks. Half of Dickens' oeuvre is "being poor sucks, and especially for kids", ergo Oliver Twist.
Similarly, slavery, circa Alexander's time:
A scholiast provides a specific example in Alkidamas the Elean sophist, a pupil of Gorgias, speaking in his Messeniakos:Originally Posted by Aristotle, Politics 1.1253b 20ff.; my translation
Originally Posted by In Aristotelis aretem rhetoricam commentarium 74.31 @ Rhetoric 1373b; my translation
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True enough, but both those examples were the accepted state of things for the majority of the time, if I'm not mistaken.
Most people reckon world hunger's a bad thing, but it's not as if there are droves of people offering up significant resources and volunteering to go abroad and build wells and modernise farms- nah, those are the real devoted ones. There's probably a very vocal minority of people in each age advocating their good cause.
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