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Awareness -> RE: Stuff about stuff (12/11/2011 1:25:48 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Ishtarr
So, I have a couple questions.
If you have a girl ready for that kind of commitment who wants to be a slave. You take her as you slave, treat her as such. Everything in nicely defined and established, both know their parts and all goes well until a couple years down the line, for whatever reason, she changes her mind and decided she doesn't want to be a slave anymore and wants to leave. What do you do? Ishtarr, it's a valid question, but you're going to have to answer a question yourself.
Is slavery: A) an emotional state
B) a piece of role-playing
C) a consensual hallucination between two people?
From my perspective, if a slave ever wants to leave, then it's the responsibility of the Master. Either he chose poorly to begin with or he's simply not mastered her well. Either way, he has to accept responsibility for the outcome, which in this instance is to let her go. I argued quite some time ago that slavery within a Gorean style definition simply was not possible in our society - which implies that ALL slavery is either a piece of role-playing or a power structure which exists between two people to an extent which flouts federal law.
Now, if - purely as an example - our laws allowed Gorean style slavery, then leaving would not be an option. Then again, I suspect women would think long and hard before voluntarily entering into such an arrangement, because the potential outcome is more far-reaching.
Essentially, if a woman desires to be mastered and wishes to call herself 'slave', she either accepts what that implies or she may as well call herself a sub. Frankly, I think less than 1% of self-identified slaves are even capable of accepting that reality - which implies that the moniker of 'slave' within a BDSM context has become essentially meaningless. It's a facile mockery of actual slavery. An erotically-charged piece of nonsense which self-identified slaves use to try and elevate themselves above 'mere' subs.
As for the rest - if you're responsible for a slave, you're responsible for everything, including how it ends - I think it's important to always leave a girl better than when you found her, but the idea of slave alimony or a severance cheque is certifiably bonkers.
The mistake you've made Ishtarr is to presume I keep or intend to keep slaves. I don't. It's impractical within this society and it's pretty much a fiction anyway - slaves are no different to subs, it's just that some of them have a superiority complex which they like to share with their fellow subs.
Basically if a slave has concerns or fallback plans for their current situation with their master, then they're not a slave - at least not to that Master. They haven't accepted their Master as being the one who has concern and responsibility for them. Hedging your bets in regard to your Master essentially means you're fooling yourself.
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