riftyful said:
> Now then, if someone makes the choice to be a slave and they happy with the
> way they are treated, is that wrong? If a person enslaves someone who
wishes
> to be enslaved and is completely okay with it, and they do not force that
upon
> other people, what is wrong with that?
That sounds to me like D/s rather than slavery:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission
I don't think D/s is wrong. The key point to note is that D/s doesn't
actually involve slavery, because slavery is illegal. It's just someone
choosing to submit to someone else and taking on the title "slave". Because
it's not actual slavery, you can back out and otherwise assert your right to
freedom. For example, if you're a real slave, your owner might whip you, and
there's nothing you can do about it. If you're just practicing D/s, and you
don't like to be whipped, you can refuse to be whipped.
If we compare proprietary software to slavery, D/s is more like choosing not
to assert control over a libre program than choosing to use a proprietary
program. If you have a problem with something a proprietary program is doing,
such as spyware, you can't do anything about it, unless you can both get away
from using the program and learn to live without it, which isn't always
possible. If it's a libre program that you're simply choosing not to assert
control over, though, you can, at any time, choose to start asserting control
over it by e.g. removing the feature you have a problem with.
