>>19164
>Kidnapped little boys
Indeed
>>19206
Say what you will about the Ottomans, but they were true boipucci connoisseurs.
>>19206
RAHHH TO MAKE THEM INTO GREAT WARRIORS YAAAHH JUST THINKING ABOUT WARRING GIVES ME A GREAT ANIMALISTIC HARD-ON!!!!
The fact that a "mob" of slaves and prisoners were turned into a brutal fighting force that began to even worry the Sultanate with their power was very surprising.
They were celibate, weren't they? Did they not rape when pillaging? What was their incentive for fighting?
>>19297
They were trained from a very young age, so loyalty to the Sultan was probably all they've ever known.
>>19206
>Kidnapped
When it's done by the state, it's conscription
>>19456
It was still forced.
>>19686
By the state, yes. Like the difference between murder and execution.
>>19847
Doesn't conspire with what op said as it doesn't make it right.
>>19164
that fucking hat, holy shit
this is beyond tf2 levels of absurd
