BambiBoi -> RE: looking for advice from an older mistress/domme (9/1/2012 2:59:13 PM)
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ORIGINAL: PerfectSurrender Consent does not imply ethical. Bullshit. Unless the client is incapable of giving consent, consent is all that's needed to cover the ethics. If this is an action that will harm nobody but the client, it's the law that will prohibit her from doing this even WITH informed consent that is unethical in this case. ... If someone is of a weaker mentality than me then I have a responsibility towards them, if indeed they are more than mere strangers off the street, to not wrongfully exploit such weakness and the issues that stem from such weakness. This is true despite the fact that I exist as a selfish, godless animal. The goal of any sane person that is willing to spend more than 10 minutes with another person should be to be patient, to enlighten and to be careful with the fragility of other lives. Even if at the end of the day we consent to beat them (or to be beaten). We might be quibbling over operational definitions, but what you embody as "ethics" is more in line with "morality." You talk about enlightenment, bettering others and one's self, growth, making the world a better place in a normative fashion; that is, you suggest this SHOULD be the way. And we SHOULD behave a certain way. Ethics differs from morals mainly in that the policy fueling it does not include bettering the world. Ethics is about getting by, being good enough. No ethical concept requires the helping of a suffering person. Like Batman; he won't kill you... but he doesn't have to save you. I am not saying you are wrong for imposing good quality principles upon yourself. But they are not necessary to the social contract, and ergo are not a part of ethics. You're better than ethical. If you live by the words you wrote, then you go above the call of duty. Kudos are indeed in order because, in your own words you've "adopted that responsibility." It wasn't required of you, you chose to walk the path of the light. The law is not a body concerned only with ethics. The law is full of morals, judgments, mores, and biases in the pursuit of making the world a safe place and sometimes a better place. So you're right. Legally, "consent" as a defense goes pretty far but is not absolute.
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