Talk:Royal Round Table/@comment-96.242.179.217-20130819055430/@comment-5102537-20130820143307

Edrea wrote:

"I mean, if commoner can be knights, why not noble one can be servant..now that's an equality :)"

Hah, that would have been an awesome idea! :-D Arthur serving Merlin with breakfast and washing his clothes. Brilliant! Unfortunately, this would have gone too far, given that these were dark ages.

Basically, there isn't even equality today. Democracy always tells that everyone can become everything they want when they're just working hard neough, but that's not true. There are differences between people in regard to pretty much everything, skills and intelligence included. That's why I referred to human rights and Arthur improving the way the rights of peasants and servants are dealt with when it comes to things like justice, for example. But again, this wouldn't have been possible in medieval times. Even today, human rights are often ignored in many parts of the world.

Arthur couldn't have even lowered the taxes when considering that he had to hold Camelot's position as the strongest kingdom, especially after the huge loss in two wars with Morgana and the huge loss of soldiers after the search for Morgana.

The Round Table was supposed to be a symbol for equality among the knights, meaning that in the legends, Arthur was the king but in the end only one of his men, a knight like them. On "Merlin", Arthur was indeed only one of the knights in battles, as we could see, but in regard to overall equality and the court, not much had changed. And, as I said before, Uther never treated his knights in a bad way, so I couldn't see any difference in regard to this.