Kaytoo wrote:However the point being is.....You're suggesting you as a slave should be able to pick and choose who/what/when/where as to acting like one on even the most minor of things. Slavery is about no choice, concubines on the otherhand still owned so more a "soft slave" I guess having more of those freedoms (though if I ever had one they better damn well be respectful of all).
Actually, gwyn disagrees with You here, Miss Kaytoo, in tli, in the roleplay world, the slavery that we choose to partake in, a slave has the choices and rights their Owner gives them. gwyn does not have to heal everyone, she doesn't have to serve everyone and she doesn't have to defer to everyone. she does to most, and serves most because that is the way gwyneth was trained, and that is the way her personality is, but there are a few whom she will not. her Master gives her the right to those choices, and no one else's opinions of what her slavery should be has the right to take that away. gwyneth gives every Free a base level of respect, and the Free goes up or down in level from there depending on Their Own actions. now if public rules go into effect that she must defer to everyone, she will follow that, or at least appear to, but don't expect her to do one bit more than what law requires her to do for those people who have gone downward in her personal estimation. gwyn would not want her rp world to mimic r/l human trafficking so far as restrictions and treatment. r/l human trafficking is abusive, illegal and immoral, ALWAYS. and she doesn't think she's in the minority there.
gwyn would not wish her r/l relationship to mimic it either, nor does she see herself as soft for being in a consensual loving r/l Master/slave relationship. she has been active in several campaigns to make people aware of human trafficking, and she knows well the difference, though thankfully she (narrowly) avoided being such herself in the past. Those who compare the two, or who refer to r/l human trafficking in terms in comparison with such relationships are only doing the rest of us a HUGE disservice, for the general public doesn't realize those differences. This is why bdsm couples have trouble with children services and other aspects of the law. Because of that ignorance and that perpetuation of it. every time gwyn sees someone arrested and the headline reads about a 'sex slave' gwyn cringes. every time, it does more damage to legitimate relationships.
<gwyn puts her soap box away>
At any rate, a slave has what rights and choices their Owner, and ultimately, through the laws, the Emperor decides to give them. they are property, but they are not property as a chair, or a shovel. if gwyn would have to compare them to anything outside of a category of their own, it would be a highly trained warhorse or hunting/herding dog. one capable of acting autonomously when needed, of making decisions for the benefit of their Owner. But really even that comparison isn't quite there. A slave is, at its best, a person who is owned, whose actions and talents become an extension of and benefit of their Owner. Therefore, rules governing slaves should be pliable enough to allow the slave to perform that task, while still protecting them and ensuring the general contentment of the Free populous. at least in this girl's opinion .