hopelesslyInvo
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ORIGINAL: Archer The question though remains should the legal right to walk be the standard we hang slavery on? Is the legal standard the be all end all of the discussion? We both are contending that it is not and should not be the definative, and in my case I provided historic models that it has not always been nessisary to meet the definition. it does make a decent "standard" though doesn't it? there are rights and freedoms i possess that i simply cannot get rid of, and these are things a "slave" doesn't have, regardless of what silly paper i sign, or who consents, these rights and freedoms remain. i am unable to be property in the eyes of people whose authority supercedes all of ours in terms of what we can or can't do, that's why legality surely comes into context for more than just me. back in the historic examples, who was there to interfere with who served who, and why they did, and under what conditions. there was neither the general concern, nor the means, or the resources to enforce such laws concerning human rights. and it's not even similar to something like drugs, where although they aren't legal, it doesn't stop people from illegally going about things, it's different because unless someone was raped, or forced, or deprived their rights, the government wouldn't look at any claims of illegal activity and say "ohhhhh you're in trouble now, breaking the law with your illegal consentual slavery!~", they'd say the same things we've heard said already and not acknowledge it as even being slavery, "slave?... this person is partaking in things they want to do of their own free will, that's not slavery, that's freedom". if i take my toaster out and beat it into a hundred pieces with a baseball bat, that's called damaging property and making a mess. if i take my "free-slave" out and beat them to death with a baseball bat, that's called murder. people go to jail for that for about 3 years and some change last i checked. but anyway, in a case where slavery has been legal or without any superceding authority to stop it, how often would a case of killing them have been seen as murder? about none of them? when it's your property, and you own their life, you can do anything you please with no reprocussions, hence the "this is not the case" viewpoint problem here. these sorts of things weigh in on a persons views, and surely they make a nice enough standard by which we question things if not to try and define, it's not like we haven't questioned ourselves before for other reasons. but it's hard to blame someone for questioning something that seems to lack a lot of what is supposed to define it. the question i'm pondering on isn't why we feel a need to define labels, or why and how people try to validate them, or even how people expect them to live up literally to their name. i'm just really curious... everyone just take a giant bite of suspended disbelief if you have to, so you can follow me on this one. if you had to admit that this isn't "real slavery" would it inherently diminish and ruin everything? some people are curious why someone will attack their definition of "slave" but i'm curious why that word or concept is so important to people in the first place. would calling a "total power exchange, willing as can be submissive" something that is probably more accurate like a "super servant", instead of something edgy like a "slave"... would that just demolish your mindset so badly and ruin what the relationship means to you? would the foundations of your dynamic crumble if you came to the conclusion and admittance that it wasn't indeed slavery? would it change what they do for you? what you do? what it means to you? why you do it? all of it just simply gone, just because you suddenly realize your apple juice isn't 100% real and has real artificial ingredients?! i'm sure the answer i'm going to hear from everyone is no, but i had to ask. oh and you can stop the whole suspended disbelief thing now, we can all be slaves again, if we want to. *zing* i suppose this is the end of yet another long rant mine so i need to figure out a closing, thought provoking and if at all possible, couple of cheesy lines to finish with. point is, well hold on, i'll make the point first. hello everyone i am a slave. see? i don't know about you all, but that just didn't feel right for me, maybe in my submission someday i'll end up feeling like i identify with the word slave, but that's the point. some people would say "i'm a submissive" and it just wouldn't feel right to them either. i hate when people say things like "in your reality", as that just belittles everything to sound like roleplay, but and while in some degree this does make it roleplay, i could see myself in a state of mind that is so convinced that our relationship is exactly what we say it is that i wouldn't care who or what tried to interfere or tell me i wasn't someone's slave, my reply would be exactly what i believed, "you are wrong". if i believed it, and my owner believed it, that's enough for us, even if it's not enough to convince anyone else. yeah i know, that's not my case, i'm still mr. submissive, but you had me at hello right?
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