Timeline for What was supposed to make replicants obedient?
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| Mar 29, 2022 at 3:41 | comment | added | Covertwalrus | The matter was discussed in H Beam Piper's story"A Slave Is A Slave" when he points out that in a slave society "Everyone has it just that much better than the person below him, and less pressure than the one above him, that he is encouraged to stay where he is. We have something like that, too, in our military hierarchy." | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 4:59 | comment | added | Yasskier | @EricNolan how about "You will disobey me and you will go to Hell"? Peasants in medieval Europe never (?) seen someone dragged from the biblical Hell, yet the fear of such punishment was strong enough to make them think twice before they would disobey. 5 monkeys and banana (on a ladder) again. | |
| Oct 6, 2021 at 4:57 | comment | added | Yasskier | @releseabe armed soldiers have a strong sense of belonging - to their comrades, to the unit and to the country. If you are rebelling/deserting you are betraying people that would die for you, which is a reason why desertions are relatively rare in a well-disciplined army. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 8:48 | comment | added | Eric Nolan | Also bear in mind that the punishment for revolt is likely a strong factor in discouraging further such actions. In the third servile war (Rome) the slaves who were captured alive after the army crushed the revolt were all crucified along the main road in to Rome. How many would want to rebel after that. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 2:38 | comment | added | releseabe | I think among enslaved people there were a variety of reasons rebellions were rare. firstly, there were slaves who were more privileged who might want to keep that position. secondly they were very carefully kept unarmed -- even in the civil war when slaves were considered to be recruited to join the rebel army, they were not to be armed but rather free up soldiers to fight by doing manual labor -- seems like replicants were armed. | |
| Oct 4, 2021 at 0:31 | history | edited | Yasskier | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2021 at 0:05 | history | answered | Yasskier | CC BY-SA 4.0 |