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I tink dat hercules is supplying da pills guise.

Oh, so you guys want to Dragonball One piece, nice.

Gol D. Roger the new Elvis.

@_Meh_:

It is interesting that someone besides Hawkins can make predictions about the future. It certainly changes the discussion about whether or not fortune-telling was related to his Ability. But enough about that, on to the over-analysis of Luffy's speech patterns!

"Do you poop?" - A vulgar question to be sure, but with a surprising hidden meaning: Only a real, living creature can poop. Luffy is a dreamer at heart, but his simplicity mires him in a world of pragmatic answers. To someone like Nami, Reverse Mountain was an incredible phenomenon, stretching the laws of physics while at the same time reinforcing them. To Luffy, it was just a "Mystery Mountain". But he truly wants to live in a world where living skeletons and mermaids aren't just figments of his imagination. And just imagine his dismay if he were to ask "Are you real?" only to be told "No." The poop question, even if answered in the negative, is a much easier let-down.

"Don't take meat lightly!"- For someone that regretted befriending the beasts of the jungle simply because he missed out on eating them, this phrase shows a remarkable degree of respect for living things. Meat doesn't grow on trees- although there are experiments underway, I'm told. Meat is processed from the bodies of animals. In order for there to be meat to consume, a living creature must die. I'm no vegetarian, but I try not to take meat lightly.

I want some of what you smoked/injected/consumed when you wrote this post.

i ignore my grades for last term cause I didn't do well, must mean the term never happened. if only it worked like that, too bad.

omfg guys luffy used haki in his previous fights. That's cheating and not allowed so I am going to assume that the possibility of him using haki before he used CoC is not possible. Otherwise, it totally ruins the story cause you know Luffy totally cheated.

Honestly, it really doesn't make a difference since he wasn't at all aware that he was using some sort of magical power. I don't really understand what this mean but everyone seems to love using this phrase with alterations on this forum so let me use it; "it is a shounen so the main character having some amazing power isn't all that ridiculous."

Well I do understand what shounen means but it irks me that it is used as an excuse to explain everything that is not ordinary to the story.

@Fezzik:

:pouty::sideways::silly: …:whistling:

you just got merked, mate.

! @Reyairia:
! > I just really doubt that Oda would go so far to associate slavery and seafolk so much if slavery could affect any random person and there wasn't any difference between seafolk slavery and human slavery. Yeah, the Tenryuubito can probably enslave any random person they want - as seen by the scene with Charlos and Zoro - but it's probably a bit different since Charloss didn't call that chick a slave but a wife though the two are unlikely to be different past the term.

In Tequila Wolf Robin was told:

"The people working here are either criminals or else the citizens of countries that refused to join the World Government… well... I guess you'd call them slaves."

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/one_piece/v54/c524/6.html

They're not just random people who the Tenryuubito chose to enslave, but specifically criminals and non-world government countries. Knowing the WG and how it behaves with what it considers justice (just look at Aka Inu) - the fact that it considers itself justice and nothing else, the fact that the institution itself has no problem going against innocent civilians if there's even a minimisal possibility they could be a threat against it's power, is it really out of the question that the WG would consider people from those countries criminals and encourage killing and slavery against them? After all, they did do something similar with Robin.

Meanwhile when it comes to fishmen and merfolk they're all fair game regardless of the fact that FI and the WG are allied because of the discrimination against specifically fishmen/merfolk. Jinbe said that before WB came and declared FI his territory the place was a mess of slave traders, pirates, and marines chasing after them. It doesn't matter whether a fishman is a pirate or was just a civilian the WG still turns to look the other way if one is captured.

My guess is that the minority racism probably applies to giants, long-arms, etc. though with giants it might be that Elbaf is a pirate island similar to Amazon Lily - not to mention far more difficult to take down and capture - as for long-arms and long-legs they're probably not as sought out as fishmen since they're not much more valuable than a regular human. Also there's probably very few of them that show up at Saobody since so far the only one we've seen outside of Brook's training thingo was Apoo.
Plus, fishman island is right next to Saobody so that probably helps a lot in the slave trade with them.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/one_piece/v51/c499/18.html

Edit: "Apparently they sell mer-people and fish-people even if they're not bad guys."
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/one_piece/v51/c499/18.html
Implies that to be a human slave you have to be a "bad guy" in some form or the other. At least in the WG's eyes.

That's all nice speculation and such, however, we clearly saw that tenryuubitou can enslave or capture any person they like, prime example is the chick who has to become a wife to the fat dragon. There is nothing to suggest that the government only allows "bad people" to become slaves otherwise it helps them out. There has been nothing to suggest this. I'm sure a lot of the auction house stock were people who the bounty hunters thought would bring them a lot of money and not just people who are criminals.

@Reyairia:

Dude, it was mentioned several times that Amazon Lily and Impel Down were in the Calm Belt.
If it's clear on the map, then it's clear on the map where they are.

I think it is quite clear and no one is arguing that these three islands are undoubtedly on the calm belt. What he asked was whether it was between East blue and GL or South blue and GL (I think they are on the same side of the Red line)