daddysprop247
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Joined: 6/24/2005 From: DC Metro area Status: offline
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FL, we seem to disagree on what exactly is "reality". i am pretty positive you do not know me in real life, or my Master, so how is it you can make the assumption that i can walk away from my Master? my reality is this: i cannot leave him. can i try? oh, certainly. but can i succeed? no. it is not a matter of simply loving him and wishing to stay. it is also a matter of understanding the fact that leaving (except by suicide) simply is not an option. the door is not open for me, and for various reasons (1 being that i have no unsupervised contact in real life with anyone on the outside, another being that the fact that he has certain legal powers over me), the odds for survival would not exactly be on my side. it's both frightening and comforting, knowing i am trapped. this is my reality, but this is not the reality of every slave. for some the door is open, and they "can" walk out that door if they so choose. however, should they? imo, no. do they have that right, to put themselves first and simply leave? imo, no. but what one can do and what one has the right to do often differs. obviously, you have a very different view of this lifestyle (meaning M/s, not necessarily BDSM) than i do FL. it is clear you believe strongly in a few things....there is always the right to leave (altho you seem not to understand that for some leaving is a physical and/or legal impossibility), abuse is not acceptable and perhaps not even a "true" part of the lifestyle...and such beliefs are fine. but they are not what i would define as slavery or anything close to it, and i don't see the problem with admitting that. likewise, if you or anyone else for whatever reason didn't feel that i was a slave or anything close to it, it's your perogative to tell me that and whether or not i'd be offended is irrelevant. you assume i lack life experience and common sense...simply because my beliefs differ from yours. aren't you doing the same thing to me that you feel i'm doing to others? i do not believe in redefining words to make them mean what i'd like them to mean. if dictionary definitions don't suit you, fine, but i like to keep things simple so that is what i go by. a slave is X. a Master is X. clear definitions. no gray areas. yes, my Master has the right to do with me as he wills, because i belong to him. nothing complicated about that. no, i do not feel he'd ever harm me beyond recognition, but i am no fool and understand that in life anything can happen, so i accept the possibility. that is part and parcel of accepting a life of slavery. and no, i do not have the right to leave him. is a slave who will not leave any more a slave than one who will? no, that is not what i believe. a true slave can do something which they know full well they have no right to do, so yes a true slave can leave. but one who feels that they (and all others) have the god/legal/nature given right to leave? that is not a slave in my opinion. but i'm sure those who feel differently could care less about my opinion.
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