Originally Posted by
hamishspence
Being enslaved by orcs is still being enslaved, even if their only concept of "enforcible ownership" is muscles.
A point is made in FRCS that orc slaves suffer a lot - at least as much as Thayan ones.
In the context of D&D it's made pretty clear that "illegal captivity & coerced labor" is slavery. In fact, just the captivity can qualify as "being enslaved" - given the intended endpoint.
If you kidnap someone with the intention of selling them or making them work, then, by definition, you have enslaved them.
The D&D writers don't really consider "thuggish compulsion" of this kind to be "not slavery" - thus it ends up being called slavery in the books.
Re: Pathfinder: How views on Slavery influences character alignment
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.