Crick crack my knees snap

i know this is supposed to be a cool picture but that might be one of the worst shotgun set ups i have seen in my entire life

People who say that Dany should've tried to end slavery "peacefully" are saying that incidental physical violence is worse than systemic violence. Sure Slaver's Bay may have been "at peace" before she came there, but your definition of "peace" is very different from mine if that peace constitutes violence perpetrated every day against a large part of the population. Dany could not have ended slavery without starting a war. She tried and look how that ended up. To the people who are saying that she should have tried to do it peacefully, I want to ask: or what? Or what if she couldn't have done it peacefully, or without bloodshed? If the implied answer is, "or not at all", what you are saying is that systemic violence is not violent enough to warrant physical violence to end it. Which shows that you don't know much about slavery at all.

This is essentially the reason many have considered GoT as an endorsement of the status quo against any revolutionary violence. Because the message seems to be that no matter how heinous the systematic oppression and violence inherent in a prevailing system, violence that tends to disrupt the system is always worse than it. Only under such a logic can Daenerys’ campaign in Slaver’s Bay be seen as the genesis of a villain. Notice that violence done in accordance with the logic of the status quo (e.g. Robb Stark declaring war to seek revenge which works perfectly in a feudal context) can still be heroic in the show’s portrayal. It is the sort of system-upsetting revolutionary violence that we find in Daenerys’ arc that is being singled out as being of the same species as mass murder. Not the numerous wars fought in Westeros (starting with the War of the Five Kings). Not even the earlier conquests by Aegon and his sisters (which still work within the logic of feudal society). No, it is Daenerys who tried to change the system altogether whose violence is of a special sort, i.e. the sort that should tell us that she is capable of the worst atrocity in Targaryen history. So what is so particularly bad about her violence? Except for the fact that it is meant to overthrow the system completely?