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julietsierra -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 4:37:29 AM)

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

(even a burrow owl cares for its family).


WHO?

(sorry, couldn't help it...it was an owlish statement, not an actual question)

juliet




RavenMuse -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 4:47:37 AM)

There are two distinct lines here.

One side looking from outside the relationship.... the otherside saying "This is how it works. IN here, IN real life"

The one I side with the first over is on the issue of consent. She always does have the right to walk away because if that is a right she feels she has to take up then stopping her means the law DOES come into play.

Anything else, is irrelevant if she has handed them over and can only take them up again by making that choise to walk out the door! She consents, she submits.... so they are NOT hers until/unless she WALKS AWAY and removes that consent. You can site laws and bye-laws all you wish, that doesn't change what goes on inside a relationship where BOTH consent to it.

she submitted to Me because she trusts I will keep her safe and that I will run the relationship such that overall she has her needs met.... one of those needs was and remains to be My property, for My ownership.... *I* had to get her to understand WHY I was placing that one right above anything else we have, WHY that was important in terms of consent. In her mind she KNOWS she will never have to use it, she chooses to ignore it.... but it is THERE because *I* have set it there as a cornerstone of our relationship. Other than that, once she found someone she could trust this fully, this compleatly, she wanted/needed to hand all other 'rights' over to Me to use as I wish.... in the knowledge that I value BOTH of us. I may come first, but there are two of us in the relationship I run and have a responcibility for.... I handle and have the responcibility for the rights of BOTH of us.

THAT is how it works inside THIS relationship. Anyone else has a problem with seeing that... its their problem really. I'm just posting from interest and shared points of view. Not as if anyone outside can change one word nor one feeling of it :)




NorthernGent -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 4:54:02 AM)

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ORIGINAL: julietsierra

quote:

ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

(even a burrow owl cares for its family).


WHO?

(sorry, couldn't help it...it was an owlish statement, not an actual question)

juliet


I'm quite partial to the odd owlish statement or two!




agirl -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 5:04:46 AM)

In rely to Juliet, too....

Yes, I am governed by him and my happiness and sometimes my health etc, is influenced by him, as it is by other people and/or circumstances but it's not a personal entitlement that I recognise.

It's certainly a by product, it's certainly a hope/desire and aim of his and mine.......but entitled to it?......No, I don't think so.

agirl







NorthernGent -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 5:11:07 AM)

Off topic but I agree, there's no such thing as something for nothing in this life. If a person wants something they need to grab the bull by the horns - there's no entitlement or right to happiness but under the right guidance it's there for the taking.




Mercnbeth -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 5:13:46 AM)

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ORIGINAL: kyraofMists

I often see the statement, "slaves have no rights."  However, I don't have a good appreciation of what other people mean when they say that someone has no rights. 

Hopefully without diverging into a debate on what a slave is or isn't...  Can you explain what this expression means to you?

Knight's kyra


always just took it as shorthand, with the omitted portion being something along these lines:
 
...other than those guaranteed, not just through lip-service, but backed up with actions by the Owner/Master of the slave in question.
 
the "if he comes at you with a running chainsaw, you'd utilize your right to run away and find your limits real fast" or
the "what if it was a race between you and an intruder to the shotgun, would you stop and call Master for permission" or
the "so, you think you really are a slave, huh, well that's abusive and illegal"
 
type statements always feel to this slave just like the seemingly endless "yes it is", "no it's not", "yes it is", "no it's not" of early communication memories with brother & sister (esp. if mom wasn't around!)
 OR
 an attempt on some well-meaning souls part to "enlighten" those around here who identify as slaves.  that enlightenment being that their lives as they perceive and live them, after they gave up having _____________ to their Owner/Master, are a ridiculous and elaborate fantasy for which no "sane" person could consent to therefore please, for the love of everything holy get some help, blah, blah, blah.
 
the self-appointed armchair psycho-analysts rarely seem to take into account the different ways that many live happy fulfilling lives.  not everyone fits into one homogenous "pure-race" package of mental & physical "health" and what a BOON to those who wish to sell all the magic pill, the program, the motivational tapes, et al, n'est ce pas?




MaryT -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 6:43:43 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Wulfchyld

Mary,

My point is that you have taken a stance on what you preceive to be right and untill such a point that everyone sees it your way they are wrong.

Is that pointed enough?


No.  It exactly correct. 




MaryT -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 7:11:30 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Noah

That someone mentioned the Constitution does not require descent in to a legalistic debate. We can just as well refer to the rights enshrined in the constitution as our natural rights, and only use the constitutional language as a sort of pointer. I felt that this was the sort of move BitaTrouble was making.

Your point hinges, as you say, on whether a person has stepped across a certain national border. BitaTrouble's point--unless I'm wildly mistaken--holds irrespective of geography.


Bita's point made about as much sense as saying, "I revoke my birth certificate."

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I suspect that you and I are both out of our depth anyway, in trying to tackle things in terms of Constitutional Law. I say that about me because I know my limitations.  I say it about you because you actually said:

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either she makes a choice OR he commits a federal offense.  At any given time, only one of those circumstances can exist - one of the two circumstances is protected under Constitutional law.


...which entails that commiting a federal offense is protected under Constitutional law.


I do not see how you got that.  One or the other must exist.  She is practicing liberty (consenting) or he is keeping her captive against her will. 

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Your "at any given time" clause is very troublesome to me. You seem to feel that in any case where permission must be granted, the person granting the permission must be busy, actively choosing to regrant it in each minute of each day.


I do not feel that way.  My point:  She is choosing ... or he is breaking the law.  I don't understand what you don't understand.

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It seems to me that I can choose to let my nephew squat on my woodlot upstate and then three months later quite forget I ever had that conversation with him, forget I granted that permission. In this event I am most assuredly not "at any given time" busy choosing to let him live there but unless I miss my guess, my preoccupation with other matters doesn't make him a trespasser under the Constitution. When the deputy drags him before me I will of course remember our deal and the lad will be exonerated from ever having been a trespasser.


So like ... is your point that Bita might forget that she really does have constitutional rights or is that her honey might forget that she actually is protected by law.  I fail to see how the above paragraph fits into the discussion.

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If I'm wrong about this I hope some legal practitioner or scholar will straighten me out.

In the same way, I doubt that BitaTrouble must by law be busy choosing in every minute of every day any particular thing at all, on pain of making her honey a criminal. That would seem a surpassing odd way, a sort of LewisCarolingian way, for a set of laws to operate.

As for your claim that we are each busy making a choice in each minute of every day of our lives, in general, well that seems like either very silly and careless talk. At best it seems like talk which expands the sense of the word "choice" until it looses all it's ability to highlight any particular aspect of the human experience.


Noah, you've so far left the discussion that I don't know how to respond to you.  I can't off the top of my head think of where is the concept of "choice" is more diluted than on these boards.

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I think the notion that submission is all about choice is terribly wrong.


Then you are not longer talking about submission, certainly not in terms of the definition of "submit":  To give over, to yield, to allow.
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I'm pointing to the ambiguities as an alternative to making assumptions about them.


Noah, feel free to assume to heart's content.  I have been as absolutely clear as I know how to be.  It is ALL about choice.  As soon possessing "no rights"  [:'(] stops being a choice, it's not bdsm anymore.  If bdsm becomes about oppression instead of consent, its days are numbered.

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If you'd like to say more about what you mean when you say It is all about choice I'll be pleased to listen and willing to learn, and/or criticize.


I find it difficult to believe that there is anything I have said that you did not understand.  Critique to your heart's content.




starshineowned -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 7:42:41 AM)

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am trying to grasp the concept of  'a slave has no rights'  Can that be tantamount to 'a slave has no limits'?  i really am just trying to wrap my head around this.  So let me take what i have gleaned from these boards.
 
Slave A:  Master says i will have sex with another female, so i will because that is what he says to do.  Master says i will eat shit so i will because that is what he says to do.  Period.
 
Do i believe there are some on here like this?  Yes....and i will use adaddysprop as that example of that. 
 
Slave B:  Master says i will have sex with another female and even though i am not bisexual and the thought of it repulses me, i will do so to please him (and how many times have we heard that?).   But...Master says i will eat shit but i just cannot do it.  It is a hard limit for me so i could not do that even if it pleased him.  Right there, the sub has made the choice on what she will do in the relationship.
 
Slave C:  Master says i will have sex with another female and although i know it would please him, i just can't do it....hard limit for me.  Master says i will eat shit but that is also a hard limit for me so i just can't do it.
 
People are always saying it is important to find a partner who shares your same limits.  Then it will seem like there are no hard limits and it will never seem like you are disobeying because all he requires of you is what you have already agreed to.
 
But from what i see here is that with the exception of Slave A, everything else is based on what the slave agrees to or not.  The only difference is...is what her Master requires of her.  So find a Master who 'fits' your limits?
 
Again....this whole 'a slave has no rights'....'a slave has no limits'....seems pretty interpersonal to me and not something that can be established across the board.

This is a very good backdrop adaddysgirl. I think for many who say they have no rights or even limits other than what the Owner allows..is stating infact that going against what the Owner allows or had been agreed upon before Ownership Will result in Consequences. Those consequences can run the gambit of punishments or dismissal period. To many slaves these consequences will rip them to pieces.

Again I think (atleast in my head) that in saying I have no rights but what the Owner allows me to have,(with exception of leaving and no longer being a slave) is the same as: "I can not  freely use those rights Without consequences of doing so from a personal dynamic standpoint".

Well Wishes
starshine
Happy slave of Master Delvin




xGoddessx -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 7:54:03 AM)

I feel as a slave, I always have rights.  When Master tells me to do something, I have the right to do it, or not.  With that, I take the punishment..uncollaring..etc, as a result of my not doing what I should have.
 
I have given over my rights to Master, but each day..with each choice, I exercise my right to continue to do as he wishes... I could just as easily use my right to refuse and take what comes with that.
 
Drea




starshineowned -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 8:09:16 AM)

In a sense yes. Question is what is really being talked about here? Choice or Rights from the Government. The right to vote is there for all. I had the choice to vote or not without intimate or immediate consequences of doing so before being Owned. Now I still have that choice..but making that choice and exercising that Right without permission first from the Owner, Will result in consequences to me on a intimate and immediate level.

Thats just a example..as the Owner insists I be informed of the canidates and issue's, and vote. The ironic twist to this is that before being Owned..I would not have chose to vote.

Well Wishes
starshine
Happy slave of Master Delvin




RavenMuse -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 8:12:08 AM)

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ORIGINAL: starshineowned
Thats just a example..as the Owner insists I be informed of the canidates and issue's, and vote. The ironic twist to this is that before being Owned..I would not have chose to vote.

[:D] Something Master Delvin and I have in common I see [:D]




KnightofMists -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 8:18:31 AM)

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ORIGINAL: agirl

I haven't thought about *rights* a great deal in terms of my relationship with M, so I'm thinking outloud here in a way.

When I asked to belong to him, I was giving HIM a a personal right. I still have all the rights I had before..........consumer rights,right to choose my children's school.....right by law. M can't remove those rights.

What he has is a personal right to decide what rights I exercise, and how. But's that's something I gave him on a personal level. No-one else recognises his *right* apart from him and I.

There are things that other people determine as rights on a personal level that I don't....for example, the right to happiness, to be healthy and cared for. I don't see those things as rights because there's no-one *governing* them. I see those things as hopes and desires.

INSIDE my relationship, the only *right* that's been spelled out is that I may leave whenever I wish to, after giving the agreed notice. But even THAT is only enforced by my own integrity.

Back to the question ......* What does the expression..."slaves have no rights"........mean to me?*........My preliminary thoughts are that they do have rights, whether they recognise them or not or whether they like the thought or not....but they can make a personal choice to allow someone else to override them.

agirl



well stated




CreativeDominant -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 8:26:57 AM)

As I watch the variety of responses go by on this thread, I am again reminded of the infinite variety of perspectives regarding anything in life and yet, in that infinite variety, how close some views come to others while remaining wildly opposite that of still others.







catize -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 10:44:46 AM)

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  Can you explain what this expression means to you?  


I have read through every post and these are my thoughts.
 
Sometimes it is helpful to me to look at things from a different perspective to understand a concept.
 
Consider a couple who are not in a D/s or M/s relationship.  The man has long had the habit of stopping off for a drink with his friends after work.  The wife tells him that this makes her unhappy and she wants him to drive straight home.
 
He of course has every ‘right’ to stop at the bar if he wants. He could very well exercise that right; but he desires a harmonious home life. 
 
His friends may  be derisive, tell him he is ‘hen-pecked’ (does anyone even use that term anymore?) or ‘pussy-whipped’ but it matters little to him   .What is important is that he and his wife have a relationship that works for them.
 
The revocation or maintenance of my rights as a slave is an issue that does not translate outside my relationship.  We discussed and agreed on what would occur in our personal interactions before hand.  The key to our happiness is that we both fulfill our side of the pact we have made with each other.  The fact that I am not legally required to kneel at his feet (or whatever else he commands) has no bearing on what takes place between the two of us. 




agirl -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 11:40:45 AM)

Thank you.

agirl




chrissyslave -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 12:50:19 PM)

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ORIGINAL: julietsierra

As a slave, I really don't follow the whole thing about "slaves have no rights." I have every single right in the world that I ever had before I came to this point in my life....
However, by virtue of my slavehood, some of my rights, which I exercise vigorously, is the right to be in a relationship where he calls the shots. I have the right to make a decision to remain in a relationship where he calls the shots. I also have the right to be happy, to be healthy and to be cared for. I also have the right to care for someone else. I have the right to love in the manner that's right for me, and I have the right to reasonable safety. I also have the right to NOT be in a relationship where he calls the shots. I have the right, I suppose, to not be happy, to not be healthy, and all the rest. I have the right to walk away.
juliet



Just picking up on our "languaging" at this point, as sometimes it seems we are not using the best term for what is meant, and some of those more idea words are really a bit further down the chain from the level of "rights."  So I will expound a bit and come full circle back to the term "rights."

We have "rights" in that the ultimate power about those lies in our own grasps to do something with, should we exercise that option, but once certain choices have been made to "unchoose" what we had originally decided on may have consequences (penalties included...such as with entering into a contract, especially where mutual consideration has already been made).  We have the right to vote, but we may "choose" not to, which does not diminish our legal rights. Conversely there are cases where we do NOT have "rights" is where even if we WANTED to we have not the option to exercise those, even if we claim to have them.

Very little of what we do here has to do with hard "rights" which even if we effectively give those to someone else, as at some point they could and often do flow back to ourselves, if they actually ever left us in the most basic sense of reality. 

What we do however is to give "choice" to another, the say in what and how we may exercise those rights (not really take them away). By doing so up front we don't have to revisit them each time, as we have the priorities already pre-established...what the master says or confirms as his preference is what goes.  We simply have the "right" to give "choice" to another, and to do so in a preemptive manner, for as long as we "chose" to.  But at least for most of us the "right" of "choice" is more "loaned" to another in such a powerful way that we speak of giving them the "right" when in fact we gave them the "position to choose" for us how to exercise our rights.  But rather than say we gave our Dom/Masters the "right of choice" rather it is easier to say we gave them our "rights" which is reasonably fine as long as we are aware of the difference.  Now whether or not we have some impute, or option to give information to a master that will allow him/her to more fully understand our situation/walls/hurddles in carrying out their "choice" that will vary from Master to Master, as is either agreed upon early on, OR simply that the Master at some point will allow that to happen...but not really a condition to allow. 

So I see a "reality" based transition, from "absolute rights," (ones by law you can't give away, or assume),  to "conditional rights" (like legal contracts and marriage), to giving the "power of choice" (decision making with each right as it comes up is already given to another) in a voluntary manner, and ultimately reataining the "power of rescending our initial choices" (your right to rescind your earlier choices to give your "power of choice" of self determination to another).   It is fairly well recognized I think that the strength of the master is highly dependent on the degree of having been given the power of choice, and the determination of the sub/slave to reinforce the choice they made to do so with the power to their Dom/Master.  It is the great power and challenge of this kind of relationship, giving voluntarily of "power to choose" that is to me that makes voluntary slavehood special and able to accomplish many good things, for both parties.

It is in my view, the degree of personal fortitude you have to both give your "power of choice" to another and maintain that commitment in the context of knowing that informal contractual relationship is what ultimately will be best for you, based on recognizing both your own weaknesses and most basic desires, to be happy/satisfied/fulfilled and believing/knowing that another will make better choices for you overall. 

It is when we struggle within ourselves about our "rights" that sometimes we forget that we made that choice to loan our "right to choose" to another for a higher purpose.  Even as a "pre-slave/sub" such as myself, I must at some due point knowing my "rights" choose give up my "power of choice" completely for myself, while in the pre-stage slowly giving up the reins of control, and sense of self-control (in many but not all meanings of the word).

So when I read here about giving up our rights, I automatically assume you/we are speaking of giving up our "choices" that fall within that right, not the right itself.  Many here has spoken of what I am sharing in different ways (personal examples) but hope by putting it in a more *transitional way* it might help clear up the need to continue to argue whether we are giving up "rights" or in reality our "power to choose" within those rights, as we still in truth have them to ourselves but not exercise them on our own any longer, at least for the time being.   




Wildfleurs -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 1:00:03 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: kyraofMists

I often see the statement, "slaves have no rights."  However, I don't have a good appreciation of what other people mean when they say that someone has no rights. 

Hopefully without diverging into a debate on what a slave is or isn't...  Can you explain what this expression means to you?

Knight's kyra


I'm way to literal, I always read that as the person literally means they have no rights, which in America is literally impossible.  Though I do think its entirely possible to give away your ability to exercise your rights (including the ones inherent for Americans through the constitution) for someone else (your dominant or owner) to decide what your rights are.

C~




daddysprop247 -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 1:40:36 PM)

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ORIGINAL: MasterWilliam55

Just because a sub does not choose to excersise certain rights, does not mean they don't exist.  When a Dom never asks anything of his sub that would seriously hurt her and never refuses her anything that she really needs, he by default acknowledges she has rights. The right not to be abused, the right to look after her health, the right to live...etc.  By saying a sub can Leave of her own choosing over anything you do that she objects to...is acknowledging free will.  She stays by consent. Are you going to ask her things she can't consent to...not likely.

Statements like "you have no rights but the one's I give you"...is pure retoric.  It isn't the Dom giving out rights...it's the sub giving up certain rights. You can tell your slave that she must report to you at 12 noon every day. Her job may not allow that. So she comes back with 2:30...asking you. "Will that work ,Sir" She is negotiating what she actually Can do to make the dynamic work. 

In other words, these relationships are not black and white. If your slave says No, and you won't listen to the point she heads out the door, what exactly have you proven?  Lets see, you've proven she has rights, and just excersised one of them. Incidently, if it goes that far, you've also proven she is stronger than you.

This is BDSM slavery, not Real historical slavery.



the description above sounds to me more like a non-ownership D/s relationship than a M/s union. i can certainly say that none of the above apply in this house. whenever my Master gives or allows me the things i need, such as food or medical care, i am grateful because these things are not rights, are not guarantees, and he is not obligated to do them for me. and there have been times when he has not, just because. that's his perogative. likewise, he has often demanded (he does not "ask") things of me that he knew would result in serious harm, whether physical or emotional. sometimes that was part of the point. sometimes the end result was irrelevant to his needs or desires at that moment. whatever the case, that too is his his perogative. but again, my relationship does not come with the "break glass in case of emergency" clause of having the right to leave of my own free will.

i think for some this concept is so difficult to understand because they hold their rights (whether legal or "human") so near and dear that the thought of no longer having them as an option seems an impossibility. then i think for others, they do not understand the mindset of a slave or of one who needs to be slave, and the intense conditioning that can take place within such a relationship.

when i first became my Master's property, for that first year and a bit, he kept me very isolated, very little contact with the outside world. all former friendships, connections with family, jobs/school, etc., had to come to an abrupt end. some would call this a sign of abuse, however it's not uncommon in certain M/s circles, and very effective in the initial training and conditioning of a new slave. this was the period where while i understood that i had given up all freedoms of my former life, there was a little part of my mind secure in the knowledge that he would never subject me to x, y, or z, wouldn't really hurt me, would listen to me, etc. mentally, i had placed limits over him, and expected him to respect those (hey i was a newbie!). so imagine my surprise and terror when he proceeded to do x, y, and z, times 10, hurt me (frequently and with great delight), degrade me, and often had me go without the things many would consider to be basic rights, such as food, use of a bathroom, affection, etc. this sort of thing is known to some as the "breaking in" period. there were times i likened my life to hell. times when my depression would hit hard and i would plan ways to "leave" my Master, via suicide. times when i wondered what the heck had i gotten myself into. this was the time when, tho i understood that as a slave, i no longer had rights, blah blah blah, way way way in the back of my mind i secretly did believe i had rights, and i was hurt that these "rights" weren't being respected. that's why the conditioning of that first year + was so necessary. you have to reach a point where you are not just actively choosing not to exercise any rights, but when you truly no longer have any ability to exercise those so-called rights.

now, i am broken. He owns me to the very center of my being. i can no longer fathom an existence without being his slave. there is no small part of me that yearns to be free. my free will has successfully been conditioned out of me. so that, he could leave the doors unlocked, point the way out, and say "go now, there will be no consequences," and i could not move an inch, even if i wanted to. rights? what rights? i am broken, this is all i know, want or need.





angelic -> RE: Have No Rights (2/3/2007 3:41:41 PM)

And some actually wonder why BDSM; D/s or M/s is seen as wrong in the 'nilla world.  At the risk of being flamed and offending the masses... After this post (the one to which i am replying) i said a small thank you for the feds that occassionally view this site. 

(Apologizes to the Mods if this post is against the TOS.) [&:]




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