Aswad
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ORIGINAL: BitaTruble It's a myth. No one has limits. In the right circumstance with the right catalyst, anyone will do anything. To believe otherwise is demented. Bit'a'Bingo. As demonstrated in the Milgram experiment and its successors, most people will even exceed their own moral limits in the presence of an authority figure that requires it of them, and some of the caveats are things that can be deconditioned. A Dominant or a Master will, one hopes, be an authority figure in the life of a submissive or slave. If they are looking to go the whole nine yards, and are competent, that will fly in almost all cases. How many people here have done something by focusing on the fact that it's his/her will? Furthermore, a thing that the curious will find elaborated on in the Interpretations section of the link provided, there is a large (unsurprisingly) overlap between the things theorists have posited as explanations for why people respond that way, and what it is that often goes on in a power dynamic. A mental shift in the distribution of responsibility and some measure of desire to conform to a physically present authority, for instance. How many people here like to be "forced" into doing something? To make an exceedingly long story short, the matter of limits is one of what limits are set by the person in charge, the trust between the parties, whether the other party is going to remove themselves from the person in charge if they notice that they are being molded, whether sufficient awareness exists to detect this, and whether the person in charge has enough skills to complete the molding process in a successful manner. If you're already there, chances are you will obey. Health, al-Aswad.
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"If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do." -- Rorschack, Watchmen.
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