MistressLorelei
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ORIGINAL: MistressLorelei If our sexual preference is not what we are standing up for... then what right is it that needs protecting at the mall? The right of expression, to say: "I have the type of relationship that is symbolized by wearing a collar and tether." The members of the vanilla world are constantly broadcasting: "I have the type of relationship that is symbolized by the wearing of wedding rings." Why the difference? quote:
ORIGINAL: MistressLorelei As a society we do have to accept that everyone has their own view of what is right and wrong, and we do make room for everyone's way of life. Some of this room is in prisons around the world. Everything everyone wants to do is not okay. Having the right to live your life as you see fit is always an option, until it infringes upon the rights of others. Good try, but not quite right. Sadly, the legal ideal has been muddied by people that think they can legislate morality in contradiction to what is plainly stated in the U.S. Constitution given the ideal of separation of church and state. So, in fairness, I can see why it's not perfectly clear to everyone. And anyway, I think you are trying to restate what I already said. Go back to the Holmes quote if it helps. The social contract basically stipulates that we stand united against what are called "common law crimes." The basic crimes of the common law would be theft, rape, and murder - or subset variants of those three main headings like fraud, sexual harassment, and assault. Like that. But however you want to dice it up, it's basically a restatement of the idea of: "What you do not want others to do to you, do not do unto others." To nail it down, I'll put it this way: I don't want people to murder me, so I don't murder anyone else. Fair is fair. An individual's rights have never extended to hurting others. That's what prisons are for, not as houses for alternative lifestyles in opposition to the social contract as stated by the U.S. Constitution. That's kind of absurd thinking there. But if all I am doing is say wearing a wizard hat or a dog collar, how am I hurting anyone else? You might argue psychological or moral harm, but that's really a wild stretch and contradicts freedom of expression, freedom of religions, etc. You don't have the right to be free from seeing me wear a wizard hat or a dog collar, simple as that - just as I cannot tell you to take off that crucifix or wedding band. Fair is fair. In response to your post which addressed my comments, and then I will be done as this seems so pointless, but children don't have a voice in such situations, so I am passionate about my views By your definition, I could drag a slave around by the hair in the mall and expect no one to think I should leave. It's not a collar or wedding ring which is the problem, it's the appearance of dehuminization and degradation publicly of one human on another. It's okay to teach our children we tolerate one person treating another like a common animal? We have so little common sense that we must in the eyes of our children. devalue other human beings, and then say we have a right to treat our slave accordingly. How do we explain to our kids that not all slaves have freedom? The significance of a wedding bang, or a collar is fine... it's someone wearing something individually... but it's the leash connecting two individuals that generally sparks contraversy... as allowing such an act, indicates we approve of one person "harming" another and that we approve of one person taking the rights of another to freely wander the mall. Wouldn't the patrons of a mall think that the rights of the leashed slave should be protected? We can't have it both ways. If a segment of "lifestylers" pops up and decides to symbolize their unions or express themselves by hair pulling, gagging, bondage, etc... we allow for that as well in our malls? It's one act towards another that tears at our moral fiber... not one person wearing a wizard hat. I respect a person in the lifestyle's right to walk her/his slave.... but I also respect others and the society I live in, and luckily most of us have the common sense to walk our slaves on a leash in private. When our rights to do so privately are being threatened, that's a whole different story. I have a child... perhaps most who have one as well, will not want the rights to public displays of kink to override the rights of a kid to go to the mall without having to learn why it's really okay for a man to treat his girlfriend like an animal... afterall she's just a slave.
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