ishyB
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Greetings tazzy, quote:
ORIGINAL: tazzygirl "Where did you find this new slave?" asked Arlene of me, not too pleasantly, regarding the slim, beautiful girl I had brought with me. "I am not a slave, Slave," said the pale, aristocratic, black-haired girl. Arlene looked at me, frightened. "She is not yet a legal slave," I told Arlene, "so treat her with the technical respect due to a free female." Arlene fell to her knees before her, her head down, and the girl straightened herself, proudly. "Get up," I said to Arlene. She did so. "Though this girl is not yet a legal slave," I told Arlene, "she is actually a true slave." The girl recoiled. "Thus," I said, "she need not be treated with particular respect." Beasts of Gor pg 415 Thank you for providing the quote, though I fail to see how it is relevant to the point you are trying to make. It seems to me that this quote say that the ONLY thing a kajira needs to take into consideration when decision how to interact with other people in relation to their status is the opinion of her own Master. While the woman in this post was technically free, the man decided that his slave did not need to take into account how other people judged her, but only what she was based on the determinations HE made. The determination other Free made about the status of the woman was irrelevant to his slave, because of the determination he made of her. Like I said, the only thing I was discussing is the concept my own Master taught me of what defines being a kajira. When I do that I don't question the determination made by other Free, because I never judged any girl personally, and I'm still only following what my Master has taught me his concepts and definitions are. quote:
ORIGINAL: tazzygirl i can honestly say no, for many reasons. one, there is a standard of care, one implemented by those far, far more knowledgable than i, and its not my place to question that standard when its needed to be implemented. i qualified that because an emergency or the middle of a treatment program isnt the best time to question such things. if a treatment is within the standard of care, its my job to follow it. i may question a dosage that seems too high, or offer suggestions for other treatments, but, i am not there to diagnose, just to follow treatment. and i have often used those standards of care to fight for my patients when the Dr chooses not to follow them. its rather an amazing system. Thank you for explaining it further tazzy. I agree that when it comes to performing your job, you can't go running around being obedient to your patients. You are serving them better when you do your job best you can instead of giving into them because they demand that. This attitude is kinda the same as what Master expects of me with my son. While I am always to keep in mind that he is free and I am not, I do not serve him by obeying him and giving him what he wants all the time. Doing such a thing would actually be a disservice to him, so while I keep my status in mind even when dealing with him, I do not blindly obey him. quote:
ORIGINAL: tazzygirl as far as the honor issue, its not worth the time anymore. i am a slave, working under the demand (yes, when i moved here, it was a condition that i attempt to regain my license) and considerations of a Man. he doesnt have time to answer the many calls i could place to him during the day asking if i did this, would his honor be violated. he trusts me to know my job, and do it well. beyond that, this part of the discussion ends here for me. the Free have spoken on this issue, and, while i do not necessarily agree, i will not discuss it further. Fair enough. If you prefer to not discuss this further, I'll let it go, but there is still one last point in your post I would like to respond to. When you go about your day tazzy, and you need to make decision about anything at all, you don't call him every single time to ask him what he wants. You know him, and are getting to know him better with each day. You will make a judgement based on what you know his preferences are and will do your best to please him perfectly. Things concerning honor are no different from this. When you have to make a call like that, you will stand there thinking: "What would Master prefer that I do?" instead of asking yourself: "What do I think is the best thing to do?" So even when you have to make that call on your own, you are still not making decisions based on your own judgment, but instead based on the expectations you know he has set for you. You're letting his will guide you, not your own. quote:
ORIGINAL: tazzygirl i dont know if this answers any of your questions, ishy. it may be better to just agree to disagree on this. your values are set by Master Bull, mine are set by Master... they may clash at times, and all we can do is follow what we have been told. I think we've long since agreed to disagree tazzy, but that doesn't mean that we cannot discuss things and learn from each other and gain new perspective. You may not have convinced me, nor have I convinced you, but I still learned a lot simple from having this debate. There are new ideas and perspectives that I hadn't thought about before, and just trying to explain my point of view forced me to further think about what that point of view was in the first place, and why I have it. To me, the object of these kind of debates to convince the other person, but to discuss things and learn from each other. Even when neither takes another point of view, both still are richer after the debate then before. I wish you well, ishy
< Message edited by ishyB -- 6/27/2009 7:43:06 PM >
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