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Duskypearls -> RE: slave? (9/9/2012 3:01:49 PM)
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ORIGINAL: AthenaSurrenders
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English is a wonderful language, with such complexity and depth that incredible nuance and specific meaning can be conveyed. A great many years of developing, adapting and borrowing from other languages has led to a richness and texture that allows even the least poetic user to draw such fine and detailed distinctions of meaning. And yet it still falls vastly short of even beginning to express the infinitely more complicated subject of human relationships and interactions.
Or to put it another way: words are just words. Every relationship is unique to the people involved. We use these words, like 'submissive', 'slave', 'master', inadequate though they are, as a starting point in our communication - just a vague, general point of reference to help others understand roughly where we are coming from, so that we can enter into meaningful discussion. Don't get too hung up on the definitions of individual words. It's like trying to discuss the colour blue - you'll never know for sure whether your eyes see the same shades that mine do, and to argue which is 'right' is meaningless.
When you say 'these people claim to be slaves but are really subs' what you are really saying is 'these people don't meet the standards I want them to'. Human relationships are not absolutes. I may not love the same way as you, but you can't tell me I'm not experiencing 'true' love.
^^^^^ What she said times a million!
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