Social diversity

> From: Xenophile
> I've heard slavery mentioned a few times here, as a future
> possibility. Um... what are robots for?

Yes, but in the more space-opera stories, slaves do not do physical labour,
but other things. Or rather have things done to them. The roman coliseum was
an institute of slavery. There is entertainment is seeing people suffer;
which is why some reality TV shows are so popular. A fully developed solar
system filled with habitats would be a space-opera style setting, because it
would be so easy to get from one 'planet' to another. Extrapolate human
diversity over a few thousand years in such an arrangement and you'll get
some very extreme legal systems.

My original post was intended to illustrate the very dark side of social
diversity; which is almost always portrayed as a good thing.

John