Why keep slaves?

[Creem_Filling]

I think what is more important than why they would have slaves is the fact that they have them at all. I think KC is trying to show the ugly side of humanity. It demonstrates what would happen if society and its rules completely broke down. There would be absolute chaos. Without laws and punishments, the morals and ethics most people live by would take a second seat to survival and pure enjoyment. I don't doubt the Mallers are using the slaves for labor and sex.

To be honest, I completely agree with you. My theory was just a crazy "what if" thing. If I were a bad guy in a world that couldn't stop me, I would have slaves too. I think that it is almost as simple as that.

[COsurvivor]

This image says it all...

[Drew227598]

I don't agree. While the slaves certainly are the first pound of meat to be thrown to the howling wolves, there are some good uses for them. Foraging for supplies wouldn't be an impossibility. Remember that outside the protection of the Mallers, there's the decidedly undead world wanting to devour all life. Faced with the option of physical and mental abuse and certain gruesome death, a lot of people would prefer to stay under the protective, if abusive, wing of the well armed Mallers.

Also remember, that the Mallers are prisoners. While they may have a lot of useful skills, as proven by Tard, I doubt they know everything. Some of these slaves could be doctors or nurses or other specialists whos skills and knowledge would make them invaluable to any group trying to survive.

I completely agree with you when you said a lot of people would prefer to stay under the Mallers protection. I am not sure if everyone on here has heard of something call Stockholm syndrome but it’s a term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors. These feelings are generally considered irrational in light of the danger or risk endured by the victims, who essentially mistake a lack of abuse from their captors as an act of kindness. So yes you could use slave labor for everything to include foraging. Beat the living crap out of them a few times (Think Pippin) and then slowly tapper off the beating and the slaves will start to mistake that as an act of kindness and next thing you know the slaves are willing to go out and look for supplies and return to the safety that the Mallers provide.

[Ctatyk Frost]

This image says it all...

Honestly, I was thinking that myself.
We have the guns, you do the labor.....no matter what needs to be built, the "slaves" are going to do it because otherwise, we'll feed them to the zombies....
Sorry, but I don't think that it's a sex situation at all...though there might be a few sex slaves, I'm betting that most are there to do the labor that the Mallers don't want to do themselves.

[cupcakezombie]

If the mallers have gone to the colony, do you think that the artist formally known as Gatekeeper will let the slaves in? They were already worried about the number of people the had there.

[Grognaurd]

If the mallers are headed to the colony, I do not think it will be on friendly terms

[Rune]

I think you'd need more motivation than sex and entertainment.

Tardis, he was all 4 knocking boots with Lizzy as soon as possible,
other than that Y not, they would provide a good meat shield 4 u and could b used to intimidate ppl, look there is fifty of us (not ten actual mallers).

[lectio]

I think what is more important than why they would have slaves is the fact that they have them at all. I think KC is trying to show the ugly side of humanity. It demonstrates what would happen if society and its rules completely broke down. There would be absolute chaos. Without laws and punishments, the morals and ethics most people live by would take a second seat to survival and pure enjoyment. I don't doubt the Mallers are using the slaves for labor and sex.

I agree. I think the Mallers are keeping slaves for the same reasons vulnerable people are kept as indentured servants or as slaves in captivity in war zones. And because the Mallers were, arguably, already corrupted by the time they were released from prison - they are the opposite of the tower setup, really.

[Eitri]

Slaves could be used for many things, Bait, Labor, Sacrifices to the Mighty Zombie Overlords, expendable soldiers, and other things. But another thing, Back in mideval times there were soldiers known as Sappers. Their job was to operate Seige Equipment and clear obsticles/

[Pteranodon]

Thay keep slaves cause that's what brute degenerate humans do- they rape, murder, bully, enslave, band together into gangs, and hold petty grudges against anyone who fights back. And once again I'm glad "We're Alive" doesn't sugar-coat the monstrous barbarity that'll become routine once law and police are gone and no one's left to restrain the sociopaths....

Unless I'm mistaken, Durai is black; so a black man owns slaves...in America.... either way, I no longer see him or Scratch as a character; they're subhuman things that ought to be killed slowly (just like the slave-owners in the Colony) This isn't what desperate people resort to for survival- this evil mentality is out there right now in the real world, all over the place, barely held in check....Not everyone of course, but more than you'd think.

If I had to choose between a zombie and Durai (or Scratch) I'd use my last bullet on the Maller.