LittleWench
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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster Yes, and do you really think you're saying something that no one comprehends? Everyone knows that we have legal rights that aren't abridged by our personal relationships. Everyone knows that slavery is illegal and slave contracts legally invalid. If you really think people are unclear about that, you aren't hearing what the OP is asking. Yet on page four I think it is this statement is still categorically made... I saw your comment that this thread was not about defining slavery but about slaves having rights. Keeping int hat vein, I will again state what I originally said. No. Slaves have no rights. It is that comment that I have continued to address. That post talks about the reality of living in a relationship where one has no rights, regardless of the stance of the law. That the premise of consent removes ones rights, and that slaves have no rights. There is a place here called Coober Pedy, where the sun is so hot many homes are built underground. I could, if I chose, live in one of those houses and not experience the sun rising and setting. For me it would cease to exist, I could experience my reality of days, weeks, seasons thusly, never again seeing the sun or moon. That, however, doesn't mean that the sun isn't still rising and setting each day. For that to cease to be reality I would have to book on the first Virgin flight into space and step "outside the box" and view the planet, sun and moon from a different perspective, where there would be no rising and setting. Thus, I would have changed reality. I have read in this thread that because I am not in such a relationship that I can't possibly understand it, and hence that is the reason why I challenge it. That is not the case at all. I love my rights. I love that I have them. I love that organizations such as Amnesty recognize and fight world wide for human rights. I cannot ignore the work they have done, the lives lost, in the fight for freedom, for my rights. I have an Owner/Master. I love that he breaches my rights, I love that I have given him consent to do so. I get where you are coming from, I really do. We played around with the M/s terminology and he would say to me "you don't have the right to...." It sounded hollow to the both of us, and neither of us could believe it fully. Now he says "It's not your place to..." and in that point he is absolutely correct. quote:
Also, it's "consensual," not "consentual." I mean, really, if we're going to get technical about the law and its effect on our lives, let's make sure we use real words. My bad, in the absence of an in-forum spell checker I use dictionary.com to check if I have the correct spelling. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This con·sen·tu·al  /kənˈsɛn tʃu əl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kuh n-sen-choo-uh l] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective Law. involving or carried out by mutual consent: a consentual divorce. I also write honour, colour, grey, aluminium, centre and litre.
< Message edited by LittleWench -- 12/16/2007 4:37:34 AM >
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