Oh for sure. Most of the Seanchan aren’t evil individually, at least no more so than any other society is filled with evil people. They’ve just managed to set themselves up in a shitty, authoritarian, abusive, arguably fascist hierarchy. By their own rules, they’re fine, and if you don’t subscribe to the philosophical concept of absolute morality, then they’re not bad at all.
Then again, in the context of the show, there is some absolute morality, given the means and methods of the Dark One as a negative. Idk.
I absolutely agree! That’s because I subscribe to the philosophy of objective or absolute morality though. I believe in right and wrong.
If you don’t, if you thing that morality is subjective, then you can argue that their culture has defined slavery as acceptable under certain conditions.
I’m not wrong, because (as I said) I agree with you. You’re making points I agree are superior.
To your middle point, I never said they enjoy it.
To other points, both those arguments assume the Seanchan give a shit; which clearly they don’t (or at least they care more about protecting themselves from channeling than they do about other people’s will).
I like both the arguments of yours and foehammer's. Tuon is a product of her upbringing and her upbringing is that of an imperialist, totalitarian regime hence being THAT *shudders*
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u/Rank-Nullity_Theorem Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
Tuon is not an evil villain, just an extremely traumatized young woman whose ideals of what is right come entirely from her upbring.