The Floating Island of the Sleeping God wrote:Aurora Novus wrote:
Let's say though that the law does not allow for slaves to be freed. OR lets say that, like during the era of American slavery, the law was corrupt, and it wasn't uncommon for free individuals to be written off as runaway slaves, enslaved once more, and shipped away.
Why could we not say this is consent for a permanent change though? Like, say, consenting to give an organ to someone else. It's a permanenrt change. You'll never get that specific organ back, even if you decide afterwards you want it back.
We could simply say that consent to be a slave is a permanent form of consent.
For someone who claims to get annoyed by feelings in discussions, you sure are focused on a lot of kinky sexual stuff. Start your own thread or drop the topic, kay?
Haha, only the second point was sexual really. The first point does have some relevance to American slavery actually. I mean, say there was a situation where an individual owned a slave purely out of fear that they would be hurt or falsly reenslaved for some reason. Is it not believeable that, in a culture where free blacks were murdered or made slaves again under corrupt government, that someone would find security and comfort in being, on paper, the slave of someone they loved? Why should this invalidate their love for the individual in question? It would provide protection. Less would dare kill another man's property, and the law would not come and steal a man's property to give it to someone else. That would only happen if they were free.
It seems to me that it's entirely possible for consensual relationships between slavemasters and slaves to exist. The notion that the slave should be free in such a situation could be seen as just idealism, while remaining a slave is a practical solution to the problem of the threat presented by society and being free. It just seems like starry-eyed romanticism. "If you love someone, set them free." No, if you love someone, do whatever you two agree is necessary to protect yourselves and your relationship.