And it can't be changed unless human kind is destroyed what would be from human kind point abosuluty retarded to do aslo you ingored that wars are for good of society of course you ignored that unlike mage caused disaster that destroy everything around blights as an example.Empire was under mages control and only mage could go to the black city because of their power no mage no trip to the black city.
And what does it change? It was concentrated effort of the empire. Means were magical rather than technological, that doesn't change anything though - at that point it was no longer thing of personal power or being a mage.
And as for wars being supposedly for the good of society - how does it change anything? How exactly did Orlesian society benefit from the civil war? Some people in power thinking they deserve more, or that they know better what's best for society, or for world... And results are tragic, often there are no victors at all.
Not at all celene still had to play by orlais rules if celene does something that orlesian nobles don't like celene is dead it changes only with gaspard who is strong enough to hold his own ground. So yes she needs approval from her society. As i said show me a noble that caused blight like disaster or what things that corrypheus did...
Corypheus wanted to restore the glory of ancient Tevinter - doesn't that count as "for the good of society"?

However, you are right, Blight (something unleashed if not created by a powerful empire that failed at their greatest project) is a great menace, but it has little to do with matter of mages' freedom! It was an effort by the empire, including all its unparalelled military, magical and economical power. A disaster of this magnitude could very well happen even if the mages were working for a mundane ruler who had a stupid idea, be it reaching Golden City or creating a magical superweapon or whatever.
Also, when we're talking about blight, even with Cory's appearance it seems that they unleashed the Blight, true, but they're not responsible for its existance in our world, since Red Lyrium Idol at the very least supposedly predates the trip to Golden City.
From what i remember they attacked human settlement and got demloished by humans they can blame only themselves.
There were aggressive attempts at converting the Dales that led to the latter closing its borders. As time passed, relations deteriorated even further, leading to some skirmishes. As for Red Crossing, the spark - not the real reason for war - it seemingly went like that:
- an elven girl was killed because, you know, evil elves
- there was a romance between an elf and a human girl, the former willing to pay lip service to Chantry so that they could've been together
- dead elven girl's sister discovered the romance
- elves got scared that the guy could betray them but they didn't manage to properly talk to him, he seemingly went to the human village, so they followed to stop him before he would endanger them
- rather than find the elf, they encountered the girl, she run to them with something in her hand, the elf (the one who lost her sister) shot an arrow. The something in human girl's hand proved to be daisies... she apparently run from her village to meet with her lover and in the dark she took an elf she saw for the one she was there to find...
- a group of men from the village heard a scream and run toward its source, they attacked the elves and got slaughtered
- the lover of the girl arrived and refused to leave, that slowed down the rest and gave people of Red Crossing time to gather in greater numbers and attack; it seems that the elves retreated, but apparently even more deaths ensued
- from that point it escalated further. It doesn't seem that Red Crossing itself got destroyed (at that point at least) but heavy casualties were most likely a fact
After the full-scale war erupted, Dalish initially got the upper hand, they pushed far into Orlais and captured Val Royeaux. The Exalted March, however, finally managed to turn the tide, in the end it defeated Dales. What measures were taken to ensure that elves won't rise again - that much is history. How many people died in the process of forced relocations and other such nicieties we can only guess as the only one who could have any reliable accounts was the victorious Chantry with mindset that retconning out elven involvement in original Exalted March, complete with destruction of any Chantry art depicting elves, was a good idea; any records they have from this period are not only incomplete and old, but most likely deliberately false...
Either way, saying that "they can only blame themselves" about descendants of victims of conquest, even if their ancestors were originally part of a nation that actually started the war... it's just sickening, frankly.
They aren't they have rights and aren't forced to work but have to live under society rules unless you want argue that we are all slaves because we live under society restrictions. Devs said as i keep telling circles aren't slavery and mages aren't property as inmates aren't.
We are not slaves, we can decide about ourselves in many areas, mages don't really have any personal freedoms.Of course, then there are Qunari who managed to build a society where everyone is a slave (way to go, Qunari!

). The question is, basically whether people in question are perceived as people or as things or animals - and the treatment of mage's family matters is where the systems shows its true colors the most.
Either way, if you're so uncomfortable with the - very applicable - word "slave", what do you propose as alternative? Prisoner, sentenced for being a mage? But wait, prisoners as we understand the term are generally allowed to have their families... so what else?