MadRabbit
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ORIGINAL: xoxi MR, I am unfamiliar with the theory you referenced and would like to stress, once again, that I'm not representing ANYONE'S arguments but my own. Not Merc's, not Skinner's. Not anyone else's. You should check it out. Its about how human beings don't really make choices and are simply human bio robots responding to reinforcers. It will help you out some. quote:
ORIGINAL: xoxi And what I was saying was that the circumstance and information provided mean that, just as a person who doesn't stop at a stop sign is a criminal, a top who doesn't follow the safeword is one who goes back on his word. I consider that to be a form of lying, and also unethical. Okay once again, you are pushing this discussion down your parameters and on your terms of this theoretical relationship. Hey, I will play along... quote:
ORIGINAL: xoxi So you're right in the sense that yes, it is a choice between following the safeword or being a liar...but are you saying those choices have equal merit? Perhaps if a woman was raped and had the choice "suck my cock or be shot in the face" you would say that she wasn't really raped, because she could have chosen to be shot in the face. So it was her choice? I think the choices of 'follow the safeword as agreed' or 'be an unethical, disreputable liar' are inherently unequal. This is because I consider my word something that has value, and when I say I will do something, I mean it. My question for you is do you see those two choices as equal or unequal? Okay...so let's say you rupture your spleen during the course of a scene and are bleeding internally...there is no way that your Top can know this. So you inform him...."Master, I think I am bleeding internally". No use of the pesky controlling safeword. Just clear communication. Now he is forced with a choice. Do I stop the scene or do I keep on going and risk my slave dieing? That seems like just as unequal of a choice as the one's presented above. I am going to assume that your Master is the kind of guy who will stop every time he is informed of a ruptured spleen. So applying the logic you have presented here for why safewords should not be used, your Master is being controlled by you, the slave! You are the dominant party because your ruptured spleen and the risk of losing you over not fixing that ruptured spleen are forcing him to stop doing what he wants to do and tend to it! As much as you want to narrowly look at this issue, there is no escaping that every Master, given the fact that they aren't God, is going to eventually have to stop or change what he wants to do based on the circumstances, information, or actions of or presented by his slave. Extending the logic past these narrow parameters of yours, there is no stopping or hindering the inevitability that a Master is going to be (as you have put it) "controlled" by his slave in some form or fashion. Without safewords, it will just happen in some other form or fashion according to the same logic you used to debunk safewords. So your argument against not using them amounts to squat in a "Big Picture" sense.
< Message edited by MadRabbit -- 11/14/2007 6:04:03 PM >
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