Now, here’s where I partly disagree with you, though you have a point. A helot rising to the top does not break the system. You want the system broken for the sake of breaking the system - which is fine - but it will absolutely be possible for a helot to gain and maintain the support of the aristocracy and maintain the caste system. The aristocracy will (grudgingly) accept a helot as one of them - if, of course, that helot is willing to play the aristocracy’s games of honor. (Not necessarily decadence.) But as you have noted, they will fight a helot who doesn’t play the game, who threatens the very system of aristocratic privilege, to the death.
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