As non-mages, I said, I believe. But I feel like most people who aren't mages don't get forcibly and suddenly removed from their homes, or taught that they're curses and punishments for sins, or find themselves with quite the list of consequences if they go for a little swim across a lake because maybe they don't want to live in one tower for the rest of their lives. Or, you know, most don't get punished for a kiss when both parties are consenting. There's a word I'm looking for here, where someone isn't held, where someone has options even if they're shitty options, where someone has some control over what they do and when they do it... oh yes. It's called freedom.

[There's no pause as if he's searching for a word in there; he knows exactly what word it is that he wants to use.]

I'm not going to claim that the lives of non-mages are without difficulty or challenges. But I am going to suggest that knowing you can walk down the street and not be attacked before being hauled back to captivity for something entirely beyond your control has been enjoyed by most humans and Dwarves across Thedas. Possibly most qunari too. I don't know enough to say for certain there.