poetnine:

cabbagepatchcat:

On the other hand, this is the city of Meereen, a veritable beacon of light in these lands, known for their humane and lovely practices! Such as, for example, the selling of boy and girl slaves under the age of ten to brothels to be used as pleasure slaves. Or the pitfighting, so ingrained in Meereenese culture that Dany later must reopen the pits because the people are too depressed unless they’re able to watch slaves murdering each other for sport.

Mereen is one of the three major slaving cities situated around the Dothraki Sea, which is interesting because the Dothraki raid essentially this entire continent killing and destroying and enslaving because they know they can make big money from selling the slaves to the city of Mereen. Which, by the way, is the only thing Mereen is good for: buying, training, and selling slaves. When Dany stops the slave-trade, the city just begins to fall apart. It doesn’t produce any technology, any art, any science, any magic, any culture outside that created by slaves and slavery. The non-slavers - the super elite fat rich who live in giant pyramids - are completely useless at everything else. When Dany frees the slaves, their trade abilities are so inferior to the craftsmanship of their slaves that basically no one wants any of their garbage and they bitch and whine about it. In fact, they try to lay claim to the profits of their slaves because they said it was their training that allows them to be so skilled.

Dany’s threat of death is not directed towards helpless little innocent lambs - it is directed towards the absolute scum of the earth. Towards a people who have created a culture of systematic rape and specifically directed toward their culture of slavery.

Which isn’t to say that that flamingpeacock88 person isn’t a moron because he clearly is or that Dany isn’t a terrible ruler, because she clearly is, but to call what these people have a “culture” is, well, sadistic in the extreme. They have a culture of misery, hatred, and suffering. Seriously, they have no culture beyond slavery.

Ironically, it is, in fact, Dany’s mercy and her attempt to allow them to keep some aspects of their culture that causes her ruinous rule. If I were in Dany’s place, I wouldhave committed actual genocide. I would have razed this city to the ground and destroyed the Meereenese people to the last man, woman, and child. Because as horrible as that is, this ‘culture’ is nothing less than a plague. That may not have been made plain in the show yet, but it is abundantly clear in the books and presumably will be made abundantly clear in the next season.

Not all cultures are worth preserving.