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It is, too, recognized that all, or most, of the castes perform necessary, commendable or useful functions. - (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #47)

There are, on Gor, it might be mentioned, ways of raising and altering caste, but the Gorean seldom avails himself of these. To most Goreans it would be unthinkable to alter caste. He is generally too proud of his caste and it is too much a part of him for him to think in such terms. It is, too, recognized that all, or most, of the castes perform necessary, commendable or useful functions. The leather worker, accordingly, does not spend much time envying the metal worker, or the metal worker the leather worker, or either the cloth worker, and so on. All need sandals and wallets, and clothes, and metal tools. Each does, however, tend to think of his own caste as something special, and, somehow, I suspect, as being perhaps a little bit preferable to the others. - (Fighting Slave of Gor, Chapter 16)